Spießrute

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Spieß (pike) +‎ Rute (rod); attested from the 16th century onwards.[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃpiːsˌʁuːtə/
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  • Hyphenation: Spieß‧ru‧te

Noun

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Spießrute f (genitive Spießrute, plural Spießruten)

  1. (military, historical) kind of prod used to punish lansquenets

Declension

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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Danish: spidsrod
  • Norwegian Bokmål: spissrot
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: spissrot
  • Polish: szpicruta

References

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  1. ^ 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

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  • Spießrute” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache