Re: German »Raute« (was: U+25CA LOZENGE)

Hi all,

Philippe Verdy <verdy_p_at_wanadoo.fr> wrote:
 |2012/8/13 Otto Stolz <Otto.Stolz_at_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.
Received on Tue Aug 14 2012 - 05:26:45 CDT