rauschig

German

Etymology

Rausch (intoxication) + -ig.

In the 1830s, Gregor Dankovszky compared the term to Hungarian részeg (drunk),[1] but the similarity must be coincidental, because Gábor Zaicz takes részeg to be of Ugric or Uralic origin.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʁaʊ̯ʃɪç/ (standard)
  • IPA(key): /ˈʁaʊ̯ʃɪk/ (common form in southern Germany, Austria, and Switzerland)
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: rau‧schig

Adjective

rauschig (strong nominative masculine singular rauschiger, not comparable)

  1. (Austria, now rare) (very) drunk

Declension

References

  1. Gregor Dankovszky, Kritisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der magyarischen Sprache (1833)
  2. rauschig in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

  • rauschig” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • rauschig” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
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