Etymograph

English

Rassenschande

Rassenschande comes from German Rassenschande ‘miscegenation: sexual relations between people…’.

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentRassenschande‘miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races’literally ‘race shame’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Germanc. 1650–presentRassenschande‘miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races’literally ‘race shame’
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2010same form

Earliest quotation: 2010, Helene J. Sinnreich, The Rape of Jewish Women during the Holocaust: “In fact, some historians’ mistaken belief about the unwavering…”

The story

Unadapted borrowing from German Rassenschande (literally “race shame”).

Every English word from German Rassenschande

Today it means

name miscegenation: sexual relations between people of “Aryan” race and “inferior” races, particularly Jews.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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