upright, on end, edgeways (usually said of things that are not normally positioned this way) · forcefully, with force; construed with verbs such as rausfliegen, rausschmeißen
eş: hochkantig
köken: By surface analysis, hoch (“high”) + Kante (“edge”). Compare Swedish på högkant.
Wir können das Sofa nur hochkant durch die Tür tragen.
Als er anfing, mir mit dem Anwalt zu drohen, hab ich ihn hochkant rausgeschmissen.
threshold (of a doorway); doorstep · threshold, level · threshold (demarcation between the limit or end of one state of being and the beginning or commencement of the next)
çekim: çoğul seuils
köken: Inherited from Vulgar Latin *solium, a blend of Latin solum (“flat ground”) + solea (“flat object, sandal”). Compare Italian soglia.