paternosterhiss

Swedish

A paternoster lift.

Etymology

Calque of German Paternosteraufzug. Compound of paternoster (“paternoster; rosary”) +‎ hiss (“elevator; lift”). Named after the constructions visual similarity to a Catholic paternoster (“rosary”), a byname from the first two words of the Lord's Prayer in Latin, "pater noster" (“our father”). First attested in 1909.

Noun

paternosterhiss c

1. paternoster (lift; loop of open-fronted cabins)

   Synonym: flaskhiss

   • 1913 January 23, Dagens Nyheter‎^[1], page 3:

     […] i sin nybyggnad vid Kungsträdgårdsgatan inreda en s. k. paternosterhiss […]

     […] in its new building at Kungsträdgårdsgatan, furnish a so-called paternoster lift […]

2. manlift (lift; a series of handle-and-step groups)

   Synonym: manlift

   • 2019 July 31, Lennart Lundquist, “Paternosterhiss förbjuds efter allvarlig olycka [Paternoster lift banned after serious accident]”, in Arbetarskydd‎^[2]:

     Hur allvarligt den anställde skadade sig vid olyckan i den så kallad paternosterhissen i december 2018, på Vargön Alloys utanför Vänersborg, framgår inte av Arbetsmiljöverkets förbud.

     How seriously the employee was injured in the accident in the so-called manlift in December 2018, at Vargön Alloys outside Vänersborg, is not clear from the Work Environment Authority's ban.