gleichzeitig German · revision 35246

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1663, Schottel}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * [ˈɡlaɪ̯çˌtsaɪ̯tɪç], [-ˌtsaɪ̯tɪk]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''gleichzeitig''' (strong nominative masculine singular gleichzeitiger, not comparable)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|de|gleich|Zeit|-ig]].^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE) Schottel listed it in 1663 among the adjectives compounded with its first element, but it did not become current in speech and writing before the middle of the 18th century.^(DWB|7, 8277) A single [[dum|gelijctidelijc|t=contemporary]] appears in a 15th-century Middle Dutch glossary, and [[nl|gelijktijdig]] is formed like the German word.^(DWB|7, 8277)^(Wiktionary) Western dialect forms such as [[ksh|glicherzick]] and [[lb|gleichzeidech]] were made after the standard word.^(DWB|7, 8277)

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+ The first part continues [[goh|gilīh]], [[gem-pro|*galīkaz|t=having the same form]], from [[gem-pro|*ga-]] and [[gem-pro|*līką|t=body, form]], the word in [[Leiche]];^(Kluge 2011|362)^(Pfeifer 1993) the second continues [[goh|zīt]], [[gem-pro|*tīdiz|t=time]].^(Kluge 2011|1005)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Apart from Schottel's list of 1663, the Grimm dictionary's quotations begin in the middle of the 18th century, in the historical sense “belonging to the same period, contemporary”: Gottsched regretted in 1751 that no songs by ''gleichzeitiger dichter'', poets of the same age, survived from the time of Odin and Thor.^(DWB|7, 8277)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the sense “contemporary” ''gleichzeitig'' stood in for [[zeitgenössisch]], which arose only around 1830, until well into the 19th century;^(DWB|7, 8277)^(Adelung 1793) Adelung's example is ''ein gleichzeitiger Geschichtschreiber'', a historian who lived at the time he describes.^(DWB|7, 8277)^(Adelung 1793) Adelung also gives “happening at the same time”, now the main sense, and a use in prosody for syllables that can be either long or short.^(Adelung 1793) The word entered the dictionaries with Schwan in 1783 and with Adelung's second edition (1796), but not yet in his first.^(DWB|7, 8277) A rarer modern use is “also, at the same time”, of a thing that serves two purposes.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 15th century – An isolated Middle Dutch ''gelijctidelijc'' “contemporary”.^(DWB|7, 8277)

+ * 1663 – Schottel lists ''gleichzeitig''.^(DWB|7, 8277)

+ * 1751 – Gottsched uses ''gleichzeitige Dichter'' “contemporary poets”.^(DWB|7, 8277)

+ * 1783 – Schwan's dictionary records it.^(DWB|7, 8277)

+ * 1796 – Adelung's dictionary includes it.^(DWB|7, 8277)

+ * Around 1830 – ''Zeitgenössisch'' appears and gradually takes over the sense “contemporary”.^(DWB|7, 8277)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # [[m|en|simultaneous]], taking place at the same time: ''die gleichzeitige Eröffnung zweier Ausstellungen''.^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(dated)'' [[m|en|contemporary]], belonging to the same period.^(Adelung 1793)^(DWB|7, 8277)

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+ ===Adverb===

+ # At the same time: ''Die beiden Züge kamen gleichzeitig an.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(rare)'' Also, at the same time: ''Das Sofa ist gleichzeitig ein Bett.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary DE)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Gleichzeitigkeit]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[gleich]]

+ * [[Zeit]]

+ * [[zeitgenössisch]]

+ * [[nl|gelijktijdig]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}