Timeline for How to get from the diminutive form to the root word (from Häuschen to Haus), and back?
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| Aug 14, 2014 at 6:56 | comment | added | Em1 | Ja, es funktioniert nicht für "Mädchen", aber das Wort hat eh schon längst seine eigene Definition und die Herleitung ist den wenigsten bekannt. – Für jegliche 'Verniedlichungen' wie "Häuschen", "Gärtchen" usw. passt die Regel. +1 dafür. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 19:53 | comment | added | Chris | @Ingmar: I think that's not what Andie2302 meant. Before his edit he had written that to recover the original word from the diminutive you have to replace ß by s. In any case, that's not true. Additionally, the Alte Rechtschreibung of Schlösschen was Schlößchen. With a ß as in Schloß. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 19:38 | comment | added | Ingmar | In the olden days, i.e. before the last spelling reform, -ss was verboten at the end of a word. You had to write Schloß, e.g., even though the diminutive would be (still is, in fact) Schlösschen. We spell it Schloss these days, though. | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 18:26 | history | edited | Andie2302 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 13, 2014 at 16:25 | comment | added | Chris | Can you give an example for replacing ß with s? I can't think of any and I think this replacement is wrong. For "Mädchen": Nowadays it isn't considered a diminutive of "Magd" anymore and its etymology is obscure for most speakers without any linguistic knowledge. If one did form a diminutive of Magd nowadays, it would be "Mägdchen/Mägdlein"; and furthermore "Mädchen" could (ironically) be analyzed as diminutive of "Made". For "Weckerl" you should know that this is a regional word and all three forms ("Weckerl", "Weck", "Wecken") are used (not necessarily in the same region). | |
| Aug 13, 2014 at 15:51 | history | answered | Andie2302 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |