Kommiss

Central Franconian Alternative forms gmw-cfr Kammess Kammiss Kommess Etymology gmw-cfr de Kommiss. Pronunciation gmw-cfr /koˈmis/ Noun gmw-cfr noun m plural </b>rare<b> Kommisse gmw-cfr archaic gmw-cfr collective military, soldiers gmw-cfr 1900 Turnverein Mülheim am Rhein Festschrift zur Goldenen Jubelfeier Chr. Musmacher Turnerleben Karl Glitscher 50 Wänn hä zum Kammiss dann geht, / Keener imm ze Leed jett deht, / Deht bahl avancire. When he goes to the military, / Nobody does him any harm, / He advances quickly. gmw-cfr countable but usually singular only a soldier gmw-cfr Zaldot / Zoldat obsolete Preuß / Preiß gmw-cfr 1930 1985 Och, wat wor dat fröher schön doch en Colonia Willi Ostermann Bläck Fööss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nak_wqpSVsU Die sechsmol zweiunzwanzig bare Penninge / Dat wor der Wocheluhn vun enem Kommiss / Dä wood verdanz, mer fohlt sich wie die Künninge / De Zech bezahlte mieschtendeils et Liss Six times twenty-two pence cash / That was a soldier’s weekly pay / It was spent at dances, everybody felt like kings / In the end it was usually Lizzy who had to pay the bill 22 pence was the daily pay of a Prussian soldier of the mid-19th century. Sundays were apparently unpaid—or at any rate the text presumes this. German Alternative forms de Kommiß pre-1996 spelling Etymology 16th century, originally in the sense “provisions, anything distributed to the troops”. The modern sense likely by backformation from compounds such as de Kommissbrot, de Kommissrock etc. Further probably from de la commissum that which is entrusted, committed. Pronunciation de /kɔˈmɪs/ [kɔˈmɪs] [ko-] de De-Kommiss.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Kom miss Noun m,es:-.sg de pejorative informal dated military service Declension m,es:-.sg Further reading