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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "schrei" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "schrei" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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I have a question. I’m studying this song cycle which is generally VERY dark and gloomy. In one song, he breaks briefly from this mood to talk about a dream of nicer times, in this stanza text here…
Ich träumte von bunten Blumen,
So wie sie wohl blühen im Mai,
Ich träumte von grünen Wiesen,
Von lustigem Vogelgeschrei.
Does “schrei” seem like it jumps out of the pastoral paradise feeling of the text? Like, is it a moment of irony? Or is a “vogelgeschrei” a lovely and normal way of describing sweet birdsong?
Absolutely! Vogelgeschrei sounds like an overly dramatic expression of how you DON’T like it. It could be all kinds of irony, including meta irony of emmulating a romantic poem, and then clumsily only using Geschrei in there because it rhymes, thereby communicating how the attempt at being poetic is really poor.
Or it could be expressing a sarcasm or irony of the narrator within the poem.
But either way it’s NOT a normal word to use for birds at all.
Thanks, this answers my question perfectly :)
Always happy to help :)
It looks like these examples are about Schreiben, not Schrei :)
Yup, I don’t have any for “Schrei” yet, so I am currently checking the database for examples that contain the term. “Schrei” is part of “schreiben”, so that’s why these are here :)
I’ll switch that over to a new system in a few days actually (hint: chatgpt)