Arbeitsplatz German · revision 35590

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=1741|origins=gem-pro *arbaidiz, grc πλατεῖα}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * /ˈʔaʁbaɪ̯tsˌplats/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''Arbeitsplatz''' ''m'' (genitive Arbeitsplatzes, plural Arbeitsplätze)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is a compound [[af|de|Arbeit|-s-|Platz]], with a linking ⟨s⟩.^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE) The first part is native and goes back to [[goh|arabeit|t=toil, work]] and [[gem-pro|*arbaidiz|t=hardship, toil]].^(Kluge 2011|57) The second was borrowed in the 13th century as [[gmh|plaz]], from [[la-med|placea]] and [[fr|place]], which go back to [[grc|πλατεῖα|tr=plateîa|t=broad street, open square]].^(Kluge 2011|710)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ The first record is from a Hamburg newspaper of 1741, which reports two cereal plants growing out of the marble rubble on the ''arbeits-platze'' of the court sculptor Glume, his place of work.^(DWB2|3, 219)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In the 19th century it was used of the places in a factory, as by Immermann (1836), whose workplaces fill and empty at the stroke of the bell.^(DWB2|3, 219) In the 20th century it also came to mean a job, a post in employment: in 1911 a released prisoner may not change his ''Arbeitsplatz'' without the prison authority's consent, and in 1948 the KPD called for securing a job for every young person.^(DWB2|3, 219)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1741 – First record, of a sculptor's place of work.^(DWB2|3, 219)

+ * 1836 – Immermann uses it of places of work in a factory.^(DWB2|3, 219)

+ * 1911 – First record of the sense “employment, job”.^(DWB2|3, 219)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A place set up for working, such as a [[m|en|desk]] or bench: ''Am Fenster hat er seinen Arbeitsplatz.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # The place where one works, a [[m|en|workplace]]: ''Ihr Arbeitsplatz ist das Rathaus.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A [[m|en|job]], employment: ''In der Region fehlen Arbeitsplätze.''^(Duden GWDS 1999)^(Wiktionary)^(Wiktionary DE)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[Arbeit]]

+ * [[Platz]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}