Spießrute
German
Alternative forms
- Spiessrute (Switzerland, Liechtenstein)
Etymology
From Spieß (“pike”) + Rute (“rod”); attested from the 16th century onwards.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃpiːsˌʁuːtə/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: Spieß‧ru‧te
Noun
Spießrute f (genitive Spießrute, plural Spießruten)
- (military, historical) kind of prod used to punish lansquenets
Declension
Declension of Spießrute [feminine]
| singular | plural | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| indef. | def. | noun | def. | noun | |
| nominative | eine | die | Spießrute | die | Spießruten |
| genitive | einer | der | Spießrute | der | Spießruten |
| dative | einer | der | Spießrute | den | Spießruten |
| accusative | eine | die | Spießrute | die | Spießruten |
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Danish: spidsrod
- → Norwegian Bokmål: spissrot
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: spissrot
- → Polish: szpicruta
References
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Spießrute”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
Further reading
- “Spießrute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache