Glossary entry

German term or phrase:

Chaise

English translation:

chaise

Added to glossary by Kim Metzger
Feb 4, 2009 18:58
15 yrs ago
German term

Chaise

German to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
From the translation of a Heimatsroman (contains many Bavarian terms).

"Hinter den drei jungen Leuten folgten die alten Harrers in ihrer Chaise."

It is some kind of carriage - if anybody knows of any closer translation, that would be helpful.
Change log

Feb 4, 2009 18:59: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Other" to "Art/Literary"

Feb 12, 2009 22:41: Kim Metzger Created KOG entry

Votes to reclassify question as PRO/non-PRO:

Non-PRO (1): Harald Moelzer (medical-translator)

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Proposed translations

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6 mins
Selected

chaise

If the Harrers are people, I don't think it's the handcart.

A chaise, sometimes called chay or shay, was a formerly popular, light two- or four-wheeled traveling or pleasure carriage, usually of a chair-backed type, with a movable hood or calash top. The name came from the French for chair, through a transference from a sedan-chair to a wheeled vehicle. The two-wheeled version, for one or two persons, also called a gig or one-horse shay, had a body hung on leather straps or thorough-braces and was usually drawn by one horse; a light chaise having two seats was a double chair . The four-wheeled pleasure carriage type was similar. The term chaise was also used for any light carriage or pleasure cart.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise

Eine Chaise (gesprochen: "schääs") oder auch Marktchaise bezeichnet vor allem im badischen Raum einen robusten zweiachsigen Handwagen, mit dem früher Waren auf den Markt gefahren wurden. Das Wort Chaise stammt aus dem Französischen und bedeutet eigentlich „Stuhl“. Es hat durch die Nähe des Elsass den Sprung über den Rhein geschafft, im badischen Dialekt aber einen Bedeutungswandel erfahren.
Andere Bedeutungen
Eine Chaise ist auch eine zweisitzige Kutsche, die von Pferden gezogen wird, z.B. die Berliner Chaise
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaise
Peer comment(s):

agree Heidi Lind
1 min
agree Lingua.Franca : If the Harrers are, indeed, people :) Which they probably are.
2 mins
agree Jutta Wappel
5 mins
agree Jo Bennett : "Mr. Clifford... travelled in his Coach & Four, for he was a very rich young Man & kept a great many Carriages of which I do not recollect half. I can only remember that he had a Coach, a Chariot, a Chaise..." (from Jane Austen, Memoirs of Mr. Clifford.)
12 mins
Jane knew her carriages.
agree Inge Meinzer
14 mins
agree mill2
17 mins
agree Anton Baer
20 mins
agree Steven Sidore
21 mins
Howdy, Steven.
agree Helen Shiner : With Miss Bennett and Jane
1 hr
agree Armorel Young : a very familiar term in English - probably more so than as a Fremdwort in German
1 hr
agree Bernhard Sulzer : and thus, the points go to...
1 hr
agree Harald Moelzer (medical-translator) : http://www.dict.cc/?s=chaise
4 days
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Chay, shay is great!"
4 mins

Handcart

"Eine Chaise (gesprochen: "schääs") oder auch Marktchaise bezeichnet vor allem im badischen Raum einen robusten zweiachsigen Handwagen, mit dem früher Waren auf den Markt gefahren wurden. Das Wort Chaise stammt aus dem Französischen und bedeutet eigentlich „Stuhl“. Es hat durch die Nähe des Elsass den Sprung über den Rhein geschafft, im badischen Dialekt aber einen Bedeutungswandel erfahren."

Vielleicht gilt das ja auch für das Bauyrische, und "handcart" ist eine geeignete Übersetzung

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Note added at 4 mins (2009-02-04 19:03:05 GMT)
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"das Bayrische" natürlich
Peer comment(s):

neutral Heidi Lind : die Leute sitzen anscheinend IN der Chaise, also wäre Handwagen unangebracht.
3 mins
Ja, mag sein, da es nicht so klingt, als zögen die jungen Leute die alten Harrers in ihrem Wagen
neutral Ellen Kraus : mit Heidi
14 mins
Ja, mag sein, da es nicht so klingt, als zögen die jungen Leute die alten Harrers in ihrem Wagen
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17 mins

Halbkutsche (Kutsche, Wagen)

veraltend auch <Chaise>

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Note added at 20 Min. (2009-02-04 19:18:15 GMT)
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Chaise für altes, schlechtes Auto
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