Army Terminology
/ Armee Terminologie
Occupations / Beruf
The umlauted vowels of a o u have been subsitituted by adding an "e"
Ackermann - small farmer Adeliger or Edelmann - nobleman Amtsbezirk - area of jurisdiction Amtsgericht - district court Arbeitsmann - laborer, non-farm worker Arzt - physician Aufseher - supervisor Auslander - foreigner Auswander - emigrant Arzt - physician Bauer - modern term after about 1850 for middle-sized farmer (500 Morgen) Baumgartner - gardener Beamter - official Bede - tax Bergmann - miner Bierbrauer or Biersieder - beer brewer Boettcher - cooper - a barrel (or cask) maker Briefbote or Briefträger- mailman Buchdrucker - printer Buettel - court official Buedner - cottager- laborer Buettner - cooper Büdner - very small farmer Buerger - citizen Buergermeister - mayor Dachdecker - roof tiler Diener - servant Dienerin - maid servant Deputant - land laborer paid in (Deputat) like grain, potatoes, lodging Einlieger - a laborer who lived on the farm Einwohner (pre 1850) - resident (living in that place) Emphyteut (pre 1850) - tenant on royal Amt land (West Prussia only) Erbpaechter - hereditary farmers Feldmesser - surveyor Fischer - fisherman Flaschenmacher - bottle maker Fleischer - butcher Foerster - forest ranger Fuhrmann - coachman, wagoner Fremder - stranger Gaertner - gardener Gaestwirt - innkeeper Gaukler - vagabond, minstrel, magician Geistlicher - clergyman Gemeinde - town, village or community Gerber - tanner Gesell - journeyman Gevaelter or Gevatterin - Godfather Glockner - sexton, bell ringer Graf - count or earl Greis - old man Grenadier - infantryman Grobsschmied - blacksmith Gross-Herzog - grand duke Gutsbesitzer -odern term after about 1850 for large estate farmer Hakenbuedner - store owner/tenant selling supplies displayed on hooks on walls or ceiling Halbbauer - a farmer with a smaller amount of land than a Bauer Hammerschmied - blacksmith Haendler - trader, merchant Handwerker - craftsman Hausmeister - caretaker Hebamme - midwife Herzog - duke Hide - about 40 acres of land Hirtin - herder Hoeker - same as Hakenbuedner Hofmeister - a foreman (kept payrolls, hired seasonal workers, and overseer) Hufen - about 80 acres of land Hufenbauern - full owners of a farm Hufenmeister - a collecter of land rent Imker - beekeeper Inwohner - inhabitant Instfrau - single female worker Instmann - single worker Jungfer - old maid Junggesellen - bachelor Kätner - a single man day worker Kanter - singer |
Katner - a day worker Korbplechter - basket maker or basket weaver Kossaerten Gaertner - small farmers or land cottagers Krueger - tenant of inn, pub or pharmacy, owned by king, noble or landlord Krugpaechter - same as Krueger Kuhirt - cowherder Kuhirtin - female cowherder Kupferschmied - coppersmith Kuester - sexton Kutscher - coachman Landmann - farmer Landstreicher - tramp Laufer - messenger Lehrer - teacher, educator Lehrling - apprentice Leiermann - organ grinder Magd - maid servant Nachbar - member of group (Nachbarschaft) leasing land from landlord Magister - schoolmaster Maier - overseer or painter Maelzer - beer distiller Mauerer - mason Metzger - butcher Mueüller - miller Mundel - orphan Musiker - musician Musketier - musketeer, infantry soldier Nachtwachter - night watchman Nagelschmied - nailsmith Ochsenknecht - cow herder Pachter - lessee, one who leases land Pfarrer - minister Pfiefer - piper Probst - administrator of the law Puppenmacher - doll maker Richter - judge Ritter - knight Rittergutsbesitzer - owner of a large medieval estate farm. Sattier - saddle maker Schaenker or Schankwart - same as KruegerSchoeffen - the court Schifter - sailor Schlosser - locksmith Schneider - taylor Schreiner - cabinet maker, joiner Schulz - the mayor Schuster - shoe maker Seiler - rope maker Siedler - settler Silberschmied - silver smith Soldat - soldier Standesamt - registry office Stellmacher - wheelwright Steuereinnehmer - tax collector Taufpate - Godfather Taufpatin - Godmother Taufpaten - Godparents Tagelöhner - land laborer earning daily wage in kind (Deputat), some cash Topfer - potter Trabant - foot soldier Traeger - pallbearer Traiteur, Trakteur - master cook Traubenweber - cloth weaver Trautgesell(e) - trusted journeyman Trautherr - trusted master Trautmann - trusted man Traexl, Traxler - wood turner Trechsler - wood turner Trimmer - freight hauler Trissler - treasurer Troedler - peddler Uhrmacher - clock maker Wagner - wagon maker Weber - weaver Wehmutter - midwife Wirt - innkeeper Zeidler - bee keeper Zeigler - brick maker Zigeuner - gipsy Zimmermann - carpenter Zuckerbaecker - candy maker |
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Army Terminology / Armee Terminologie
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Armeekorps
- Army CorpsDiseases - Causes of Death
| Abortus / Abtreibung - abortion | Haisentzuendung - throat infection |
| Abszess - abscess | Haisschwindsuch - throat congestion |
| Alter - age, old age | Hirnentzueng - brain infection |
| Altersschwache - weakness of old age | Hitziges Fieber, Kopfhtizig - brain fever |
| Aussatz - leprosy | Husten - cough |
| Ausserer Schaden - external damage | Influenze, Grippe - influenza |
| Auszehrung - consumption, wasting away | Innerliche Krankheit - internal disease |
| Bandwurm - tapeworm | Ischias - sciatica (hip joint problems) |
| Beulenpest - bubonic plague | Keuchhusten - whooping cough |
| Blaetterrose - shingles | Kindbettfieber - childbec fever |
| Blinddarm - appendicitis | Kinderpocken - chicken pox |
| Blutfluss, Blutlauf, Blutgang - henorrhage | Knockenfrass - bone disease |
| Braeune - quinsy, angina | Knockenkrebs - bone cancer |
| Brand am Fuss - gangrene on the foot | Kolik - dysentery |
| Brechruhr - scholera | Kopfwasser - hydrocehus - fluid on the brain |
| Bruchschaden - hernia | Krampfe - cramps, convuslions |
| Brustenzuendung, Brustfieber - pleurisy, inflamation of the chest | Kratze - scabies |
| Brustkraempf - cramps, spasms, convulsions | Krebs - cancer |
| Brustwassersucht - dropsy of the chest | Kropf - goiter |
| Cholera - Cholera | Langwierige Krankheit - prolonged illness |
| Durchfall - diarrhea | Lungenentzundung - pneumonia |
| Eiterbeule - abscess | Lungenkatarrh, sucht, laehmung - pulmonary pneumonia |
| Entkraeftung - weakening, debilitation, exhaustion | Magenkatarrh - gastritis |
| Epilepsie - epilepsy | Magenschwaeche - stomach disease |
| Fehlgeburt - miscarriage | Masern - measles |
| Faulfieber - putrid fever | Milzverhaertung - anthrax |
| Fieber - fever | Nervenfieber - nervous fever |
| Fleckfieber - typhoid fever | Nesselwurn - tapeworm |
| Flechtenkrankheit - dry scab | Pedechien - typhotic fever |
| Flecktyphus - typhoid fever | Pest - plague |
| Fruehgeburt - premature birth | Pocken - pox |
| Gehirnschlag - cerebral apoplexy | Raeude - dry scab |
| Gelbscucht - jaundice | Rothein - German measles |
| Gelenkrheumatismus - arthritis | Ruhr - dysentery |
| Geschwurst - swelling or tumor, goiter | Scharlachfieber - scarlet fever |
| Geschwur im Hals - ulcer in throat | Schlaganfall - cerebral apoplexy |
| Gesichtsrose - shingles | Schleimfieber - mucous fever |
| Gicht - arthritis | Schwachsinn - feebleminded |
| Gliederstoptung - apoplexy | Schwamme - fungus |
| Guertelrose - shingles | Schwindsucht - consumption |