Timeline for Is "Säegermacher" the Yiddish word for "watchmaker"?
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| Jul 21, 2016 at 20:59 | answer | added | alephreish | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 13, 2011 at 8:21 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackGerman/status/135633413431492608 | ||
| Oct 3, 2011 at 22:47 | vote | accept | Marty Green | ||
| Oct 2, 2011 at 10:53 | answer | added | tohuwawohu | timeline score: 9 | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 10:32 | history | reopened |
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| Oct 2, 2011 at 10:27 | comment | added | Marty Green | Of course, the vowel shift from zeiger to zéiger is very normal in Yiddish, but I generally assumed it derived from an older form of the German vowel, so I don't expect to see it in newer words associated with technology. On the other hand, pendulum clocks have existed for many hundreds of years, and their pointers were probably also called Uhrzeigers. | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 10:19 | comment | added | Marty Green | Thanks, Void and Without Form. That's definitely it. I had thought of zeiger but I know of know other instance where the initial consonant changes from a z to an s, so I had discounted it. But if it is already idomatic for watch hand, then that's another matter. (The misleading spelling was my own attempt to romanize the Yiddish; in the original spelling there is no hint of the etymology.) | |
| Oct 2, 2011 at 8:12 | history | edited | user508 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 2, 2011 at 3:01 | history | closed | RegDwight | off topic | |
| Oct 1, 2011 at 23:09 | history | asked | Marty Green | CC BY-SA 3.0 |