Schacht
See also: schacht
German edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Middle Low German schacht, from Old Saxon skaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft. Doublet of Schaft.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Schacht m (strong, genitive Schachtes or Schachts, plural Schächte)
Declension edit
Declension of Schacht [masculine, strong]
Related terms edit
- Abwasserschacht
- Bergbauschacht
- Bergwerksschacht
- Betonschacht
- Bodenschacht
- Brunnenschacht
- Erdschacht
- Fahrstuhlschacht
- Grubenschacht
- Heizungsschacht
- Kabelschacht
- Kanalschacht
- Lichtschacht
- Luftschacht
- Lüftungsschacht
- Mauerschacht
- Schachtanlage
- Schachtaushub
- Schachtbreite
- Schachtdeckel
- Schachtdurchmesser
- Schachtlänge
- Schachtöffnung
- Schachtschließung
- Schachttiefe
- Schachtverbreiterung
- Schachtvertiefung
- Schachtzuschüttung
- Schornsteinschacht
- Straßenschacht
- Treppenschacht
- Tunnelschacht
- Ventilationsschacht
- Wetterschacht
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
German Low German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Low German schacht, from Old Saxon skaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft.
Cognate with Dutch Low Saxon skacht, Plautdietsch Schajcht (“legging”), English shaft, Swedish skaft and German Schaft. The sense "beating" is from the canes which were used to beat misbehaving pupils in 19th-century schools.
Pronunciation edit
- (northern German Low German) IPA(key): [ʃaxt]
- (Westphalia, Eastphalia, eastern Frisia) IPA(key): [skaxt]
- (Westphalia) IPA(key): [sxaxt]
Noun edit
Schacht m
- (in several dialects, including Low Prussian) a shaft, a pole to which something is attached
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) a stalk (e.g. a beanstalk)
- (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) a cane, a stick
- (in several dialects, including Low Prussian, by extension, used without article) a beating
- Ik hebbe Schacht kręgen.
- I have been beaten. (literally: I have gotten [the] shaft.)
- Ik hebbe Schacht kręgen.
- (in several dialects) a shaft, a tunnel driven vertically into the ground
- (in several dialects, including Low Prussian) a bootleg, the part of a boot which covers the shin and calf