szopenfeld

Polish

Etymology

The etymology is uncertain:

• Doroszewski suggests an association with English shoplifting.
• Bańko suggests that the word may have either derived from German Schuppen or Yiddish שאָפּע (shope) which later, due to the massive migration of Jewish diaspora to the United States in the last XIX century, may have overlapped with other Yiddish word which had been borrowed from English shop. Thus the word may be analysed as שאָפּע (shope) + -feld (from German Feld (“field”)).
• Skarżyński cites Ułaszyn who suggests that szopenfeld comes from Russian-Jewish prison thieves' cant шоттенфнллер (šottenfnller) (also шопенфиллер (šopenfiller) or шопемфиллер (šopemfiller)).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʂɔˈpɛn.fɛlt/
• Rhymes: -ɛnfɛlt
• Syllabification: szo‧pen‧feld

Noun

szopenfeld m inan

1. (archaic, prison slang, Warsaw) shoplifting

Declension

Declension of szopenfeld

	singular
nominative	szopenfeld
genitive	szopenfeldu
dative	szopenfeldowi
accusative	szopenfeld
instrumental	szopenfeldem
locative	szopenfeldzie
vocative	szopenfeldzie

Derived terms

noun

• szopenfeldziarz

 

Further reading

• szopenfeld in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Witold Doroszewski, editor (1958–1969), “szopenfeld”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), Warszawa: PWN
• J. Karłowicz, A. Kryński, W. Niedźwiedzki, editors (1915), “szopenfeld”, in Słownik języka polskiego (in Polish), volume 6, Warsaw, page 646