Where does “Stauschlauch” come from?

Stauschlauch (German) comes from German Schlauch, from Middle High German slūch — slough, skin shed by a snake; gulf, abyss.

Stauschlauch (German): tourniquet

Definitions

  1. tourniquet

Ancestry of “Stauschlauch”, step by step

Stauschlauch traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via German Schlauch

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1GermanSchlauchhose; tube; waterskin; wineskin; potbelly; paunch
2Middle High Germanslūchslough, skin shed by a snake; gulf, abyss

via German stau

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Germanstausingular imperative of stauen; first-person...
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