from echt "real, true, pure, genuine,
authentic, natural": authentic, genuine, real, typical, the
opposite of ersatz [High German echt
< (Middle) Low German echt "genuine, legal"
< Middle Low German ehacht, ehaft "legal" <
Middle High German e < Old High German ewa
"law, marriage (contract)"]. This entry suggested by Christiane
Leißner. See further example under Gasthaus.
"Stylish she likes they should be, and echt
Amerikanisch." Edna Ferber, Dawn O'Hara, the Girl who Laughed, p. 134. Amerikanisch
means "American".
"Take your pencil and begin marking individual lines
or passages which strike you as echt-Shakespearean." George
Steiner, "Seen the new Shakespeare yet?" review of King Edward III by William
Shakespeare, The Observer, May 10, 1998.
"In recipes that emphasize the realizable over the
echt, she combines components of popular cuisines of the past decade
(Thai green curry paste, Mexican ancho chile essence) and
fashionable cooking techniques, and gives them her own innovative
twist (slow roasting duck for five hours, tenderizing lamb roast
with a paste of crushed olives, garlic, lemon peel and herbs)."
Corby Kummer, "Cooking", review of A New Way to Cook by Sally Schneider,
The New York Times, Dec. 2, 2001.
"For the gourmet alone, there is tiramisu at the
Burger King in Kyoto, echt angel-hair pasta in Saigon and enchiladas
on every menu in Nepal." Pico Iyer, "The Global Village
Finally Arrives", Time, Dec. 2, 1993, p. 86.
"The final evening's final act echt-L.A. band the Red
Hot Chili Peppers, may have fanned the flames or perhaps just got
stuck with the check Durst left, but it was while they played that
the fires started, trucks toppled and bones broke." Rj Smith,
"Days of Rage", Los Angeles, Oct. 1999.
"In London, a city whose theater is not overly versed
in such things, the echt-Jewishness of the text -- with its
references to Kaddish and the mitzvah -- may set 'Howard Katz'
apart." Matt Wolf, "Howard Katz", Variety, Jun. 25, 2001.
"Charge a dozen linen handkerchiefs embroidered with
edelweiss to her father's account." Susanna Moore, In the Cut, 1999, p. 123.
"The women were freckled, hatted with alpines, in
which edelweiss -- artificial, I think -- flowered in abundance;
they sported severely plain flannel shirts, bloomers of an
aggressive and unnecessary cut, and enormous square boots weighing
pounds." Stewart Edward White, The Mountains, 1904, p. 200.
"'Wandering about gathering edelweiss, while he is
alone and wretched!'" Rebecca Harding Davis, Frances Waldeaux, 1897, p. 94.
"Edelweiss, Edelweiss, every morning you greet me,
small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me.",
Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein, Jr., "Edelweiss",
film music, The Sound of Music, starring Julie
Andrews, 1965.
from Ehrenbreitstein "Ehrenbert's or
Ehrenbrecht's rock or mountain": a fortress above the Rhine
River in Koblenz, Germany; figuratively something imposing or
impenetrable, like the Rock of Gibraltar [German Ehrenbert,
Ehrenbrecht "honor" + "bright" + Stein
"stone, rock"]. See also Frankenstein,
stein, steinbock.
"Yes, for replenished with the meat and wine of the
word, to the faithful man of God, this pulpit, I see, is a
self-containing stronghold—a lofty Ehrenbreitstein, with a
perennial well of water within the walls." Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851, p. 55.
"'They need not be as ceremonious with strangers as
the Dutchmen are at Ehrenbreitstein and Verona.'" Theodore
Winthrop, John Brent, 1864, p. 82.
"On some great point where Honor takes her
stand,—/The Ehrenbreitstein of our native land,—/See, in
the front, to strike for Freedom's cause,/The mailed Defender of her
rights and laws!" James Thomas Fields, Poems, 1849, p. 20.
"Figure
32. is a rude sketch of the arrangement of the whole subject; the
old bridge over the Moselle at Coblentz, the town of Coblentz on the
right, Ehrenbreitstein on the left." John Ruskin, The Elements of Drawing, 1876, p. 172.
"The post-chaise was now at the door, and Flemming was
soon on the road to Coblentz, a city which stands upon the Rhine, at
the mouth of the Mosel, opposite Ehrenbreitstein." Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion.
from eigen, eigen- "own": proper,
characteristic; used in technical terms in physics and mathematics,
for example in eigenfrequency, eigenvector, eigenvalue,
eigenfunction, eigenspace, eigenstate. See further example under ansatz.
"Then the system uses the database to create 73
ghostly, digital doppelgängers
called eigenfaces, like the one above." David Shenk,
"Watching You: The World of High-tech Surveillance", National Geographic, Nov. 2003, p. 18.
"Built-in spectral-analysis procedures include FFT,
autoregressive, moving average, ARMA, complex exponential modeling,
minimum variance methods, eigen analysis, frequency estimation, and
wavelets." Joseph Desposito, "New Software Automates Signal Analysis
Completely", Electronic Design, Aug. 9, 1999.
"That was usually the way in Hollywood, and the
formula tended to be even more rigid, in the case of software
agents—eigenheads, their features algorithmically
derived from some human mean of proven popularity." William
Gibson, Idoru, 1997, p. 229.
from Entenmann "duck man": a brand of
bakery products, named for William Entenmann who immigrated from
Germany to the US in 1898 [< German Ente "duck"
+ Mann "man"].
"For example, when Dr. Ira urges Ms. Lavin's
despondent Marjorie Taub, 'You need food, real food .... I'm cutting
you off a square of this Entenmann's,' the piece of cake that Mr.
Roberts offers is, at present, a slice of store-purchased
Entenmann's All-Butter Loaf." Amy Berkowitz, "Tale of
Allergist's Entenmann's: Lavin Flips for All-Butter Loaf", The New York Observer, Feb. 19, 2001.
"6 1-inch-thick slices fat-free chocolate pound cake
(like Entenmann's)", Victoria Abbott Riccardi, "Light
desserts: These recipes are the perfect finish to a holiday
meal", Shape, Dec. 2001.
"'This one guy loves Entenmann's doughnuts, so we'd
leave a box of them on his desk.'" Melina Gerosa, "Diet
like a man", Ladies' Home Journal, Oct. 1998.
"And to the right are our popular new theme
houses—Sega, Entenmann and Eros!", Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury, Mar. 1, 2002.
"development novel": a Bildungsroman, class of
novel in German literature that deals with the formative years of an
individual.
"Verteidigung der Kindheit offered a fascinating
Entwicklungsroman reminiscent of the Parsifal theme; now instead we
discover a medium-high-level state-government official from
Wiesbaden (Hessen's capital) named Stefan Fink, a man in his late
fifties at the novel's outset whose six-year legal battle against
his own bosses in order to clear his name and find due justice is
recounted in gruesome detail." Erich Wolfgang Skwara, "World Literature in Review: German",
World Literature Today, Jan. 1, 1997.
from Erlkönig, Erlenkönig "alder
king": an evil spirit in Germanic folklore, which is malicious
especially toward children [German Erle "alder
(tree)" + König "king", Herder's
mistranslation of Danish ellerkonge, elverkonge "king
of the elves"].
"Erkling: [Joanne K.] Rowling has transposed a few
letters in the name of the Erl King or Erl König ('elf king')
of German legend. Otherwise her description holds true. It is an
evil creature in the Black Forest of Germany that tries to snatch
children." David Colbert, The Magical Worlds of Harry Potter: A
Treasury of Myths, Legends and Fascinating Facts, 2001, p. 40.
"Opposite my writing-table hangs a quaint German
picture, illustrating Goethe's ballad of the Erlking, in which the
whole wild pathos of the story is compressed into one supreme
moment; we see the fearful, half-gliding rush of the Erlking, his
long, spectral arms outstretched to grasp the child, the frantic
gallop of the horse, the alarmed father clasping his darling to his
bosom in convulsive embrace, the siren-like elves hovering overhead,
to lure the little soul with their weird harps." John Fiske, Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and
Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology, 1872, p. 31.
"I might indeed say the Phuca is a Celtic
superstition, from which the word Pook or Puckle was doubtless
derived; and I might conjecture that the man-in-the-oak was the same
with the Erl-König of the Germans; and that the hellwain were a kind
of wandering spirits, the descendants of a champion named Hellequin,
who are introduced into the romance of Richard sans Peur." Sir
Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft, 1885, p.
150.
from Ersatz, Ersatz- "substitute":
imitation or substitute, usually inferior; artificial; opposite of echt. In English ersatz connotes
"artificial, inferior or fake", which it does not in
German, e.g. Ersatzreifen ("spare tire"), Ersatzteile
("spare parts"). See also ArtLex.
"The ersatz recovery room reminded her of the archaic
operating theater where she'd had her procedure, and the thought
gave her a shudder." Robin Cook, Shock, 2001, p. 61.
"Months after we reached our mercenary
agreement—and the honeymoon check cleared—my ersatz
intended and I actually started hanging out." Jerry Stahl, Permanent Midnight: A Memoir, 1998.
"The ersatz they served in Berlin/Made a once-buxom
lady so thin/That when she essayed/To drink lemonade/She slipped
through the straw and fell in." Bennet Cerf, Ed., Laughing
Stock, 1945, p. 195.
"As in any real launch, this ersatz one was being
monitored at both the Cape and at the Manned Spacecraft Center in
Houston." Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger, Apollo 13, 1995, p. 15.
"I don't want any
ersatz soldiers, dragging their tails and ducking out when the party
gets rough." Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, 1959, p. 109.
"So was the small chemical unit that blew scented
ersatz air-freshener into the room, giving it a phony pinewoods
odor." Michael Crichton writing as Jeffery Hudson, A Case of Need, 1968, p. 66.
