Treppenwitz
German (Berlin)
noun
Definitions
- (fairly) staircase wit; l'esprit de l'escalier; a remark or rejoinder thought of only when it is too late
- (more common) an ironic and absurd coincidence; something that, if it were not true, would seem like a bad joke
Etymology
Affix from German Treppe (stairs, stair, step, steps) + German Witz (joke, wit, wit joke).
Origin
German (Berlin)
Witz
Gloss
joke, wit, wit joke
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- treppe English
- Antiwitz German
- Eisentreppe German
- Fischtreppe German
- Holztreppe German
- Insiderwitz German
- Lachstreppe German
- Rathaustreppe German
- Rolltreppe German
- Stahltreppe German
- Steintreppe German
- Treppe German
- Treppenabgang German
- Treppenabsatz German
- Treppenflucht German
- Treppenhaus German
- Treppennatter German
- Treppenschacht German
- Treppenstufe German
- Wendeltreppe German
- Witz German
- Witzbold German
- witzig German
- vicc Hungarian
- vits Norwegian Bokmål
- *witjÄ… Proto-Germanic
- vits Swedish
- vits Norwegian Nynorsk
- vits Danish
- виц Serbo-Croatian
- виц Bulgarian
- treppe Middle High German
- witz Middle High German
- виц Macedonian