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17 Nov 2004 — 10:00am
17 Nov 2004 — 10:00am
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23 Nov 2004 — 2:41pm
Here's a guide of common Hessian terms. Hessian (Hessisch) is the dialect of German spoken in and around Frankfurt.
Anner - The other one
B
Babba - Father
babbele - to speak
babbisch - sticky
Balmegadde - Famous botanical garden
(wie) bei de Hembels unnerm Sofa - Colloquial:
legendary place that
everybody knows but nobody has ever seen
beleidischd Lebberworscht - Sensitive person
Bembel - Jug for famous Hessian beverage
Bobbelsche - Little child, baby
Bosse mache - to do something stupid
brunze - to urinate
bummbe - to beat, hit
D
Dasch - Bag, pocket
der geht ran wie de Flocki ans Gehaggte - Not very
shy person
des zischt wie Abbelsaft - "that fizzes like apple
juice"
Dibbe - Pot
Dibbemess' - Frankfurt public festival
Dollbohrer - Awkward person also known as
"Hannebambel"
Dorschenanner - A big mess
dozze lasse - to drop something
dribbe - over there
druff - up there
Dubbe - blot of paint; also: to be somewhat dull
Dummbabbler - Someone who talks too much. Similar
to: "Sabbelschnuut"
E
Ebbel - Apple
Ebbelwoi - famous Hessian beverage
enuff - up
enunner - down
Erbaame! Zu sp
23 Nov 2004 — 4:56pm
Dan, thanks for the list. I find it hard to believe that Linotype is in fact a "common Hessian term", unless you've added beer to your output.
Mmmm. Linotype Doppelbock. Auf ex!
23 Nov 2004 — 6:50pm
Sometimes it
24 Nov 2004 — 12:34am
Hehe, I just put that in to see if anyone would catch it
. Otherwise, I didn't make any more edits to the list. Actually though, beer is not the regional drink of Hessen, but rather wine (and more specifically the apple wine that one drinks in Frankfurt). Doppelbach is a Bavarian variety of beer. Although good bavarian beers are easy to find here, I never see Doppelbachs.
24 Nov 2004 — 11:13am
I had plenty of Doppelbock (Becks, even) when I lived in Bremen, so it has definitely spread beyond Bavaria. I did sample the Apfelwein in Frankfurt, but I'm still a beer guy. (Although my relatives in Baden are vintners, so go figure.)
24 Nov 2004 — 11:30am
Ach! I misspelled Doppelbock twice in my original post. A thousand lashes by a Franciscan monk for me...
I'm a beer drinker, too. I almost never drink apple wine, I don't even really like it very much. If it is an acquired taste, then I don't want to spend the necessary time to acquire it, I guess.
Although I drink more beer than wine, the whole of the wines produced from the Rheingau down through Baden are great. I prefer Baden wine to Rheingau wines, even though I live much closer to the Rheingau. The Rheingau vintners produce mostly wine wine, and it is too sweet, for my tastes. Even the bottles labeled "dry" are not what would be called "dry" in Baden. Baden red wine, produced in higher volumes that Rheingau red wine, I think, is also very good.
What do kinds of wine do your relatives make? Where are your relatives located in Baden?
24 Nov 2004 — 11:56am
Dan, they are in Oberbergen, on the Kaiserstuhl, northwest of Freiburg. The ancestral home is in Riegel, which is famous for its Pils (at least in the region).
I honestly don't know what kind of wine they produce, since I tracked them down after I lived in Germany. I've only spoken with them on the phone and via letter.