Rotwelsch
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Rotwelsch.
Proper noun
[edit]Rotwelsch
- (historical) A secret cant or thieves' argot spoken by covert groups primarily in southern Germany and Switzerland.
- Coordinate term: Bargoens
Further reading
[edit]German
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Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Rot (Rotwelsch for “beggar”, compare Rotte (“rout; group”)) + welsch (“Romance; foreign”). Compare Kauderwelsch (“gibberish”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Rotwelsch n (proper noun, language name, genitive Rotwelsch or Rotwelschs, alternative nominative (used with the definite article) Rotwelsche, alternative genitive Rotwelschen, no plural)
- (historical) Rotwelsch (secret cant formerly spoken in southern Germany and Switzerland)
- Synonym: Gaunersprache
- 1959, Eberhard Zwirner, Phonetica, page 247:
- Es ist keine Frage, daß das Rotwelsch seit je nicht nur ein Mittel geheimer Verständigung war, sondern auch zur Bekräftigung und Beglaubigung der Klassenzugehörigkeit diente.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 2003, Jasmina Cirkic, Rotwelsch in der deutschen Gegenwartssprache, GRIN, →ISBN, page 3:
- Das Rotwelsch erlebte sein hoch vor allem im 18. aber auch im angehenden 19. Jh. Ursache hierfür war das Ausmaß der Armut in der Frühen Neuzeit.
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- 2019, Roland Girtler, Rotwelsch: Die alte Sprache der Gauner, Dirnen und Vagabunden, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN:
- Die Hausierersprache der Weimerskircher gehört, wie Tockert feststellt, ähnlich wie das Rotwelsch der Metzer, Lothringer und anderer zu den westlichen Ausläufern des mitteldeutschen Rotwelsch (a. a. O., S. 9).
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Rotwelsch [sg-only, neuter, langname]
singular (explanation of the use and meaning of the forms) | |||||
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(usually without article) | noun | def. | noun | ||
nominative | (das) | Rotwelsch | das | Rotwelsche | |
genitive | (des) | Rotwelsch, Rotwelschs | des | Rotwelschen | |
dative | (dem) | Rotwelsch | dem | Rotwelschen | |
accusative | (das) | Rotwelsch | das | Rotwelsche |
Related terms
[edit]- Kauderwelsch (“gibberish”)
See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “Rotwelsch” in Duden online
- Rotwelsch on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- “Rotwelsch” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
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