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

  • IPA(key): /ʃaxt/
  • (file)

Noun edit

Schacht m (strong, genitive Schachtes or Schachts, plural Schächte)

  1. shaft, mineshaft (tunnel)

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Descendants edit

  • Russian: шахта (šaxta)
  • Serbo-Croatian: šaht

Further reading edit

  • Schacht” in Duden online
  • Schacht” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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

  1. (in several dialects, including Low Prussian) a shaft, a pole to which something is attached
    1. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) a stalk (e.g. a beanstalk)
  2. (in some dialects, including Low Prussian) a cane, a stick
  3. (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.)
  4. (in several dialects) a shaft, a tunnel driven vertically into the ground
  5. (in several dialects, including Low Prussian) a bootleg, the part of a boot which covers the shin and calf

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