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I had to look up 'vogelfrei' " Vogelfrei in German usage denotes the status of a person on whom a legal penalty of outlawry has been imposed. However, the orig
by everyone 8y ago
I had to look up 'vogelfrei'
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Vogelfrei in German usage denotes the status of a person on whom a legal penalty of outlawry has been imposed. However, the original meaning of the term referred to independence, being "free as a bird"; the current negative meaning developed only in the 16th century.
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The way the meaning has changed is kinda poignant.
- Tomte 8y agoI was actually looking in Wikipedia what the English word is, but the German lemma Vogelfrei corresponds to the English lemma Vogelfrei. So it's actually a rarely used loanword, it seems.