Dolch

dolch German Etymology de. First attested in the mid-15th century in Upper German texts as de Dolch, then also de Dollich, Tolch. At first mostly with weak declension (de dem Dolchen). The formerly held assumption of a Slavic origin has been abandoned (older cs tulich is instead a German borrowing). The word is now mostly derived ultimately from de la dolo pike, dagger,“Dolo”, in: Harry Thurston Peck, Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, 1898, Harper & Brothers but the origin of the velar remains unclear.“Dolch”, in: Wolfgang Pfeifer et al., Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen, 1993, published at www.dwds.de“Dolch”, in: Kluge/Seebold, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache, 24th ed., 2002, de Gruyter It may be due to conflation with a descendant of de gmw-pro *dalk *dalk, *dolk pin, needle, clasp, which is entirely unattested in Continental West Germanic, only being found in ang dalc, ang dolc brooch, buckle, clasp). Another theory“Dolch”, in: Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm, 2nd ed., 1965-2018, published at www.dwds.de links it to de frm dollequin (ca. 1400), from de fro dolequin, itself likely from de dum *dollekijn, a diminutive of de dum dolle (“dagger”, mid-14th c.), likely from the Latin.dolk1 Compare early nl dolleken, nl dolck, nl dolch (modern nl dolk). Pronunciation de /dɔlç/ [dɔlç] [-ʎç] [-ltç] southern also [-lx] de De-Dolch.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>) de ɔlç 1 Noun m,(e)s dagger Declension m,(e)s Hypernyms de Stichwaffe Derived terms de erdolchen de Dolchstoß Related terms de Ehrendolch Horndolch Jadedolch Jagddolch Kampfdolch Ritualdolch Stahldolch Zierdolch Dolchheft Dolchklinge Dolchspitze Dolchstoss Descendants gml dolk dollich 1 16th c. nds Dolk Dolch stq Dolk 1 da dolk 1 sv dolk 1 no dolk 1 nl dolk 1 16th c. fy dolk 1 sco dowrk durck durk 1 1 en dork dirk 1 cs tulich 1 csb dolch 1 References Further reading de de Weapons