Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of EnglishHaldeman, Samuel Stehman
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Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English
Haldeman, Samuel Stehman
Pennsylvania German dialect
=Paanhaas=, as if, G. _pfanne-hase_ (pan-hare). Maize flour boiled in
the metsel-soup, afterwards fried and seasoned like a _hare_. (Compare
Welsh _rabbit_.) The word is used in English, conjointly with
_scrapple_.
=Loos= (a sow), as in Swiss and Suabian.
=Laad=, fem. (coffin), toodlaad, toodǝlaad, as in Alsace. G. die lade
(chest, box, case). PG. bettlaad, Suab. bettlade, for G. bettgestell
(bedstead).
=Schtreel=, m. (a comb), Swiss, Alsatian, Suab. der strähl. But G.
striegel, PG. striegel, PG. strigl, is a currycomb.
=Aarsch=, the butt end of an egg, as in Suabian.
=Falsch= (angry), as in Swiss, Bavarian, and Austrian. PG. Sel
hǝt mich falsch g'macht. _That made me angry._
=Hoochtsich=, Alsat. hoochtsitt, G. hochzeit (a wedding).
=Heemǝln=, Swiss heimeln (to cause a longing, to cause home
feelings).
"Wie hämelt mich do alles a'! Wii heemlt mich doo allǝs aa˛!
Ich steh, un denk, un guck; ich schtee, un denk, un gukk;
Un was ich schier vergessa hab, un was ich schiir f'rgessǝ hab,
Kummt wider z'rück, wie aus seim Grab, kummt widd'r tsrik, wii aus seim
graab,
Un steht do wie e' Spook!" _Harb._ un schteet doo wii ǝ schpukk!
(G. Wie alles da anheimelt mich) _How all here impresses me with
home, I stand, and think, and look; and what I had almost
forgotten, comes back again as out of its grave, and stands here
like a ghost._
=Drǝp=, pl. =drep= (simpleton, poor soul). "O du armer Tropff!"
(Suabian). _Radlof_, 2, 10. "Die arma Drep!"--_Harbaugh._
=Schwalme= (Swiss, for G. schwalbe, a swallow).
=Jaa= (O. Eng. yes), is used in answer to affirmative questions.
=Joo= (O. Eng. yea), is used in answer to negative questions. See Ch.
viii. § 1, ¶ 12, and § 3, ¶ 2.
"Sin dii sachǝ dei˛? _Jaa_, sii sin." (Are the things thine?
_Yes_, they are.) "Sin dii sachǝ _net_ dei˛? _Joo_, sii sin."
(Are the things _not_ thine. _Yea_, they are.) "Bischt du _net_
g'sund? _Joo_, ich bin."[23] (Are you _not_ well? _Yea, I am
well._)
=saagt=, G. _sagt_ (he says): =secht=, as if G. sägt, for sagte (he
said), as if it were a strong verb.
=Gleich=, to like, be fond of, Eng. to _like_, but perhaps not Eng. See
Ch. viii., ¶ 3. PG. ær gleicht 's geld--_he loves money_.
=Glei=, adv. (soon).--ær kummt glei--_he comes_ (will be here)
_directly_. Swiss _gly_ and _gleich_ have the same meaning.
=Abartich=, =bartich=, Ch. viii., § 3, ¶ 6 (adj. unusual, strange);
(adv. especially). G. _abartig_ degenerate.
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