Stegreif

German Alternative forms de Stehgreif misspelling Etymology From de gmh stegereif stirrup, from de goh stegareif stirrup, from goh stegōn (“to ascend”, related with goh stīgan, whence modern de steigen) + goh reif (“rope, ring”, whence modern de Reif). Cognate with en stirrup. The contemporary sense is from the idea of someone going to task “from the stirrup”, that is immediately after their arrival and without further arrangements. Speakers now often reanalyse the word as de stehen to stand + de greifen to grab, that is “something nearby that one grabs wherever one is standing”. Hence the common pronunciation (see below) and the frequent misspelling de Stehgreif. Pronunciation de /ˈʃteːkˌʁaɪ̯f/ etymological; prescriptive standard de /ˈʃteːˌɡʁaɪ̯f/ more common in practice de De-Stegreif.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de Steg reif Noun m,s:es de often with aus dem improvisation, impromptu de Improvisation Lamäng colloquial, regional de aus dem Stegreif extemporaneously de Ich hatte meine Aufzeichnungen vergessen und musste mir aus dem Stegreif etwas überlegen. I'd forgotten to take my notes and had to make something up by improvisation. de Das Gedicht ist eine Stegreif-Schöpfung. The poem is an impromptu composition. de obsolete stirrup de Steigbügel Declension m,s:es Derived terms de aus dem Stegreif Further reading de Horse tack