Timeline for Etymology of "what gives"?
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| when toggle format | what | by | license | comment | |
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| S Apr 17, 2013 at 7:16 | history | suggested | Prof. Falken | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 17, 2013 at 6:56 | vote | accept | Prof. Falken | ||
| Apr 17, 2013 at 8:59 | |||||
| Apr 17, 2013 at 6:55 | comment | added | Prof. Falken | I find the arguments from the linked article pretty weak. I'll accept your answer with the caveat that I find it at least as likely that it is a calque from German. Futher, Brian argues that it's not from Yiddish, fair enough. But were not many Yiddish speakers also good at German? Quote from article: "Rather, colloquial German has was gibt es? 'What is the matter? What's up?', but this is not a suitable source for what gives since the putative calquing did not lead to a direct counterpart to the German subject pronoun es (thus, what gives, not *what gives it or *what does it give)." | |
| Apr 17, 2013 at 6:47 | review | Suggested edits | |||
| S Apr 17, 2013 at 7:16 | |||||
| Jun 23, 2011 at 6:38 | history | answered | Hugo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |