English

Schuhplattler

Schuhplattler comes from German Schuhplattler.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Earliest quotation: 1960, Harold J. Flecknoe, Folk Dancers From All Over: “There will be merry-making galore, but Sarah Gertrude Knott,…”

A compound of Schuhe ‘shoes’ + platt ‘flat’

Proto-Indo-European *skek- ‘to move quickly, jump’

Proto-Germanic *skehaną ‘to move quickly’

Proto-Germanic *skōhaz ‘shoe’

Proto-West Germanic *skōh ‘shoe’

Old High German scuoh ‘shoe’

Middle High German schuo

German Schuh ‘shoes’

Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- ‘to spread, extend’

Proto-Indo-European *pléth₂us ‘flat, broad’

Proto-Hellenic *plətús ‘wide, broad’

Ancient Greek πλατύς ‘wide’

Vulgar Latin *plattus ‘flattened’

Old French plat ‘flat’

Middle High German plat

German platt ‘flat’

Every English word from German Schuhplattler

noun A folk dance from Bavaria and Austria in which the thighs and the soles of the shoes are slapped.

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