rauschig

German

Etymology

Rausch (“intoxication”) +‎ -ig.

In the 1830s, Gregor Dankovszky compared the term to Hungarian részeg (“drunk”),[1] but the similarity must be coincidental, because Gábor Zaicz takes részeg to be of Ugric or Uralic origin.[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʁaʊ̯ʃɪç/
  • Hyphenation: rau‧schig

Adjective

rauschig (not comparable)

  1. (Austria, now rare) (very) drunk

References
  1. Gregor Dankovszky, Kritisch-etymologisches Wörterbuch der magyarischen Sprache (1833)
  2. Zaicz, Gábor. Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (’Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN
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