Feldscher
Appearance
See also: feldscher
German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Clipping of Feldscherer, from Feld (“field”) + scheren (“shear, clip, crop”) + -er.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Feldscher m (strong, genitive Feldschers, plural Feldscher or Feldschere)
- (historical, military) barber surgeon, field surgeon [from 17th c.]
- 1796, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre [Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship][1], volume 4:
- Sein Unglück habe ihn zu dem schlechtesten Feldscher von der Welt geführt, und der Arme sei leider mit schwarzen Zähnen und triefenden Augen aus diesem Abenteuer geschieden.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (archaic, East Germany) feldscher, physician assistant in the GDR
Declension
[edit]Declension of Feldscher [masculine, strong]
singular | plural | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
nominative | ein | der | Feldscher | die | Feldscher, Feldschere |
genitive | eines | des | Feldschers | der | Feldscher, Feldschere |
dative | einem | dem | Feldscher | den | Feldschern, Feldscheren |
accusative | einen | den | Feldscher | die | Feldscher, Feldschere |
Descendants
[edit]- → Czech: felčar
- → Hungarian: felcser
- → Romanian: felcer
- → Polish: felczer
- → Russian: фе́льдшер (félʹdšer), фе́ршал (féršal) — dialectal
- → Abkhaz: афершал (aferŝal), а-фе́ршал (a-férŝal)
- → Armenian: → ֆելդշեր (feldšer) (learned), (Karabakh) փելշեր (pʻelšer)
- → Avar: пелшир (pelšir)
- → Azerbaijani: feldşer
- → Crimean Tatar: feldşer
- → English: feldscher
- → Georgian: ფერშალი (peršali)
- → Lezgi: фелшер (felšer)
- → Livvi: feršali
- → Mingrelian: ფერშალი (peršali)
- → Tatar: пиршыл (pirşıl)
- → Udmurt: пэршал (peršal), фэршал (feršal)
- → Urum: фершал
- → Uzbek: pelsher
- → Slovak: felčiar
Further reading
[edit]Categories:
- German clippings
- German compound terms
- German terms suffixed with -er
- German 1-syllable words
- German terms with IPA pronunciation
- German terms with audio pronunciation
- German lemmas
- German nouns
- German masculine nouns
- German terms with historical senses
- de:Military
- German terms with quotations
- German terms with archaic senses
- DDR German