Fahrzeug German · revision 35336

+ {{infobox|confidence=probable|formation=compound, calque|attested=1502 (farzeug, of a wagon)}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈfaː(ɐ̯)tsɔʏ̯k/, [ˈfaːɐ̯tsɔʏ̯k], [ˈfaːtsɔʏ̯k]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Fahrzeug''' ''n'' (genitive Fahrzeuges or Fahrzeugs, plural Fahrzeuge)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed [[af|de|fahren|Zeug|t1=to travel|t2=gear, equipment]].^(Kluge 2011|273)^(Wiktionary) Kluge holds that it was taken over at the end of the 17th century from the Low German word [[m|nds|fārtüg]] (compare [[nl|vaartuig|t=vessel]]), and that it first meant “ship”, as the Dutch word still does.^(Kluge 2011|273)^(Wiktionary)^(Duden GWDS 1999) Another account traces it to [[gml|vārtǖch]], brought into High German by travel accounts of the 17th century.^(Wiktionary DE) The revised Grimm dictionary, however, treats it as a derivative of [[fahren]] and calls the connection with the Low German and Dutch words unclear; in recent use it is also a shortening of [[Kraftfahrzeug]].^(DWB2|9, 64)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The revised Grimm dictionary quotes ''farzeuͤg'' for a wagon with its wheels already in 1502, in a translation of the revelations of Saint Birgitta.^(DWB2|9, 64) Kluge dates the word to the 17th century, with the sense “ship”.^(Kluge 2011|273)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 18th century Adelung defined ''Fahrzeug'' as any ship or vessel used for travelling on water, and especially the smaller kinds, not warships.^(Adelung 1793) Wieland and Schiller use it of boats and ships at sea.^(DWB|3, 1267) Kluge dates the land sense, a cart or wagon and then any means of transport on land, to the 19th century,^(Kluge 2011|273) though the revised Grimm dictionary has wagons from 1502 and 1749.^(DWB2|9, 64) From the 20th century it is used above all of motor vehicles, as in a 1928 description of the car as the comfortable vehicle of the day.^(DWB2|9, 64)^(Wiktionary) Today it covers any device on wheels, runners or wings that carries people or loads.^(Duden GWDS 1999)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1502 – ''farzeuͤg'' is used of a wagon.^(DWB2|9, 64)

+ * End of the 17th century – Kluge dates the adoption of the word for “ship”.^(Kluge 2011|273)

+ * 1749 – ''ihr rollend fahrzeug'', of a carriage, in a poem by Lange.^(DWB2|9, 64)

+ * 19th century – Kluge dates the general sense “vehicle on land”.^(Kluge 2011|273)

+ * 1928 – The car is called “the comfortable vehicle of today”.^(DWB2|9, 64)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|vehicle]]: a construction with wheels, runners or wings, with its own or an outside drive, for carrying people or loads; also a ship or boat: ''Auf der Brücke standen Fahrzeuge aller Art im Stau.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(narrower)'' A motor vehicle, a car.^(Wiktionary)^(DWB2|9, 64)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[Kraftfahrzeug]]

+ * [[Wasserfahrzeug]]

+ * [[Einsatzfahrzeug]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Flugzeug]]

+ * [[fahren]]

+ * [[Zeug]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}