Hi all, Philippe Verdy <verd...@wanadoo.fr> wrote: |2012/8/13 Otto Stolz <otto.st...@uni-konstanz.de>: |> Hello, |> |> am 2012-08-13 20:48, schrieb Leif Halvard Silli: |>> |>> The word 'Raute' reminds of the Norwegian 'rute' - and my Norwegian |>> book on etymology assumes that 'rute' is derived from 'Raute'. The |>> Norwegian 'rute' may refer to a cell in a (data) table or in a square |>> board for chess. Such a 'rute' is of course a square. Perhaps German |>> 'Raute' has a similar possibility of being interpreted as square? |>>[.] |> |> In German, »Raute« is a synonym of »Rhombus«, i. e. |> an equilateral quadrilateral. Hence, every »Raute« |> is a »Quadrat« (square), but not vice versa. |> (A square has also four equal angels.) | |Correction: |* Every »Quadrat« (square) is a »Raute« (Rhombus), a Rhombus/Raute |being not restricted to right angles.
According to the german »Duden« ([0],[1]) a »Quadrat« has four angles of 90 degrees, whereas a Raute is described as a »schiefwinkliges gleichseitiges Viereck«, an «oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram». Of course , |* Every »Raute« (Rhombus) is also a lozenge,[.] And i would think that the other way is the more common one, i.e, Rhombus (Raute), because the geometrical form is »rhombisch« and it forms a »Rhomboid«. Steven [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duden [1] http://www.duden.de P.S.: Yes, germans; but i wouldn't count Btx since noone had it anyway.. That reminded me of the then minister of post Schwarz-Schilling, related by marriage to Sonnenschein batteries, and i always wondered why a small company without much research could gain lots of orders from major companies like Volkswagen.. But that ended in 1992 once he resigned, too. Unfortunately www.dict.cc shows a big relationship in between Raute/rhomb and Doppelkreuz/hash. I don't know if that means much though. Just one more vespiary.