Zettel meaning and definition in german
- small or loose piece of paper 1635 der schutzengel [...] sträuet etliche zettele nider, darauf schöne sprüch aus heiliger schrift wider die hoffart ("the guardian angel scatters a number of loose pages from above, on which are fine sayings from the holy writ against the sin of pride") Jacob Bidermann, Cenodoxus, p. 71.
- note, message, letter 1511 name er sollich zedel der klagen, verprennet sy und sprach ("he [Constantine] took such letters of complaint [against the bishops], burned them, and said [...]"), Albrecht von Eyb, Spiegel der Sitten, Augsburg, [https://books.google.ch/books?id=saNJAAAAcAAJ&dq=Spiegel%20der%20Sitten&pg=PT198#v=onepage&q&f=false 92v. (O 2b)].
- poster, placard, public notice 1725: ohnerachtet herr d. Pf. meinen zettul vom schwartzen brette hatte abreiszen lassen ("neverthelsess Mr. d. Pf. had my poster taken down from the [university's] bulletin board", Chr. Thomasius, Gedanken und Erinnerungen, Marburg, 3, 104;
- weaving warp 1493 kainen zettel innemen oder wúrken, er hab in dann selbs gezettlet ("[he should] take over or work no warp, unless that he has himself warped it). Urkundenbuch Stuttgart ed. Adolf Rapp, Stuttgart, 1912, p.560. 1530 wenn ... an einem kleid eines aussatzes maal sein wirt, es sey ... am zettel oder am eintrag ("The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether [...] it be in the warp, or woof [...]") Zürcher Bibel, Leviticus 13:48.
zettel meaning and definition in german
