Pedell
Appearance
German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Middle High German pedel, from Medieval Latin pedellus, bedellus, perhaps influenced by Büttel, from Proto-Germanic *budilaz. Cognate with English bedel and beadle.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Pedell m (strong or mixed, genitive Pedells, plural Pedelle or Pedellen)
- (archaic) caretaker, janitor (of a school)
- Synonyms: Schulwart, (archaic) Schuldiener
- 1911, Erwin Rosen [pseudonym; Erwin Carlé], Der Deutsche Lausbub in Amerika [The German prankster in America], page 10:
- Trotz aller Anstrengungen des Pedells gelang es nie, die Sünder in flagranti zu erwischen. Stellten wir doch stets den jüngsten "Fuchs" als Wache auf die Straße, und wenn der Pedell oder ein Professor sich blicken ließen, wurden wir prompt gewarnt, kletterten aus Hinterfenstern, flüchteten über Höfe, stiegen über Mauern.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
[edit]Declension of Pedell [masculine, strong // mixed]
Descendants
[edit]- → Dutch: pedel
Further reading
[edit]- “Pedell” in Duden online
- “Pedell” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Pedell” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Pedell”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 533
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