Tuub
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See also: tuub
Alemannic German[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- Duub (Rheinbischofsheim), Duube (Opfingen; Todtmoos), Düüwe (Sankt Georgen), Daup (Mühlingen), Taub (Hohenfels (Hegau)), Tuube (Entlebuch; Appenzell; Kesswil; Fürstenland), Tube (Toggenburg), Tubo (Dornbirn)
Etymology[edit]
From Middle High German tūbe, from Old High German tūba, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Cognate with German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, English dove, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, dúva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Tuub f (plural Tuube, diminutive Tüübli)
- (Zürich) pigeon, dove
- 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili:
- Se fromm wie 's Tübli ufem Dach, / Se widleich wie d'Foräll im Bach.
- As bold as the little dove on the roof, as lithe as the trout in the stream.
- 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
- Chaibe Tuube! Mängisch chunt me da nöd drum ume. Wo di sind, schiisids ales voll.
- Damn pigeons! Sometimes you can't avoid it. Wherever they are, they shit over everything.
Further reading[edit]
- Alemannic animal names (by taxonomy) on the Alemannic German Wikipedia.Wikipedia gsw
- “Taube”, in Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Wörterbuch der schweizerdeutschen Sprache[1] (in German), volume XII, 1885–2020, column 129
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