Tuub

See also: tuub

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

Duub (Rheinbischofsheim), Duube (Opfingen; Todtmoos), Düüwe (Sankt Georgen), Daup (Mühlingen), Taub (Hohenfels (Hegau)), Tuube (Entlebuch; Appenzell; Kesswil; Fürstenland), Tube (Toggenburg), Tubo (Dornbirn)

Etymology

From Middle High German tūbe, from Old High German tūba, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Cognate with German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, English dove, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, dúva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva.

Pronunciation

(Zurich) IPA^(key): /tuːb/

Noun

Tuub f (plural Tuube, diminutive Tüübli)

(Zürich) pigeon, dove
- 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili:
  Se fromm wie 's Tübli ufem Dach, / Se widleich wie d'Foräll im Bach.
  As bold as the little dove on the roof, as lithe as the trout in the stream.
- 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
  Chaibe Tuube! Mängisch chunt me da nöd drum ume. Wo di sind, schiisids ales voll.
  Damn pigeons! Sometimes you can't avoid it. Wherever they are, they shit over everything.

Further reading

Alemannic animal names (by taxonomy) on the Alemannic German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^gsw
“Taube”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache (in German), volume XII, 1885–2020, column 129

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