synonym of Peitsche (“whip”) · scourge (whip used for flagellation) · scourge (persistent source of harm, especially when seen as divine punishment)
çekim: çoğul Geißeln · tamlayan Geißeln
eş: Bakteriengeißel, Flagellum
köken: From Middle High German geisel(e), from Old High German geisila (“whip”). Cognate with Dutch gesel. The spelling with -ß- reflects sporadic devoicing; compare the frequent pronunciations of niesen or Preiselbeere. Its use for distinguishing between Geißel and Geisel (“hostage”) is an arbitrary convention, which fully established itself only around 1900. (The two words are not related but became…
aile: begeißelt, Geißel der Menschheit, Geißelhieb, geißeln
köken: From Middle Dutch ellende (“abroad, exile”), from Old Dutch elilendi (“exile”), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *land (“land”), compare German Elend (“misery”).
köken: Probably from Latin cyma, from Ancient Greek κῦμα (kûma, “swell, wave, billow”). The meaning was probably derived from the swellings from diseases such as the bubonic plague. Compare also Aromanian ciumã (“peak, summit”), which has a meaning shared by most other Romance languages, and Albanian qime.