Where does “Sachverhaltsquetsche” come from?
Sachverhaltsquetsche (German) comes from German Sachverhalt, from German Verhalt, from German verhalten, from German halten, from English halt, from Middle English halt, from Old English healt, from Proto-West Germanic halt — to hit; beat; to pierce, to stab; goblet.
Sachverhaltsquetsche (German): reading circumstances into the case description that aren’t reasonably likely any more
Definitions
- reading circumstances into the case description that aren’t reasonably likely any more
Ancestry of “Sachverhaltsquetsche”, step by step
Sachverhaltsquetsche traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via German Sachverhalt
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Sachverhalt | circumstance (surrounding the facts), factual findings |
| 2 | German | Verhalt | behaviour |
| 3 | German | verhalten | restrained; to behave; to be |
| 4 | German | halten | to hold; to stop; to halt; to hold back; to... |
| 5 | English | halt | To limp; move with a limping gait; To stand in... |
| 6 | Middle English | halt | Limping, lame, crippled |
| 7 | Old English | healt | lame, limping |
| 8 | Proto-West Germanic | halt | lame, halt |
| 9 | Proto-Germanic | haltaz | lame, halt |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | kol-d- | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | kel- | to hit; beat; to pierce, to stab; goblet |
via German Quetsche
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | German | Quetsche | a method, application or instance of squeezing |
| 2 | German | quetschen | to squeeze, to squish |
| 3 | Middle High German | quetzen | — |
| 4 | Old French | quasser | to break; to annul; to quash |
| 5 | Latin | quassō | to shake repeatedly, to quake |
| 6 | Latin | -tō | Forms here |
| 7 | Latin | -tus | Forms the past participle of verbs; Forms... |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -tus | — |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -tus | Derives action nouns from verb roots |