a Hungarian or Hungarian-origin soldier that does not converse well · klutz, blunderer, butterfingers (clumsy person)
çekim: çoğul Tollpatsche · tamlayan Tollpatsches
eş: Tölpel, Töffel, Trampel, Platsch
köken: First attested 1698 in Bavaria as Tolbatz, from Hungarian talpas (“wide-footed; infantryman”), so called because of their footwear consisting of soles attached by strings. Influenced by toll (“crazy”), patschen (“to whoosh, to hit with a splashing sound”), and dalpen, talpen (“to walk clumsily; to grab clumsily”), also Dalpe, Talpe, Dalpsche, Talpsche, Patsche, designations for a broad hand.
köken: Unknown. First attested in the 20th century. * Bruckner suggests a derivation from bucefał; supprted by Karłowicz, Sławski, and Długosz-Kurczabowa. * Bańkowksi suggests a derivation from dialectal German *Bandspfahl, from Band (“bonds”) + Pfahl (“pole”).
köken: Inherited from Proto-Slavic *bъlbъ, from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥b-, an ablaut variant of *stelb (“post, pole, jamb”) (whence also stilbs, q.v.), from *stel- (“to put in a standing position, to erect; standing, immobile, stiff”) with an extra b. The semantic evolution was probably: “motionless, stiff” > “surprised, stunned” > “stupid”. Cognates include Old Irish borb (“foolish, silly”), Latvian…
köken: From Proto-Italic *gʷordos (“stubborn, heavy”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷr̥dos, variant of *gʷrd-u- (“slow, heavy, tired”), though De Vaan acknowledges that the cognates point to a u-stem instead of an o-stem as in Latin. The PIE root is also uncertain. Quintilian called it a "Spanish" (possibly Iberian) word. Compare Lithuanian gurdùs, Latvian gur̃ds (“tired”), Proto-Slavic *gъ̑rdъ…
aile: gurdōnicus
Item in Cacomnemone: Hic est (inquit) ille gurdus, quem ego me abhinc menses duos ex Africa venientem excepisse tibi narravi.
Et gurdos, quos pro stolidis accipit vulgus, ex Hispania duxisse originem audivi.