Tuub

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Alemannic German

Alternative forms

  • Duub (Rheinbischofsheim), Duube (Opfingen; Todtmoos), Düüwe (Sankt Georgen), Daup (Mühlingen), Taub (Hohenfels (Hegau)), Tuube (Entlebuch; Appenzell; Kesswil; Fürstenland), Tube (Toggenburg), Tubo (Dornbirn)

Etymology

From Middle High German tūbe, from Old High German tūba, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ. Cognate with German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch duif, English dove, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, dúva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva.

Pronunciation

Noun

Tuub f (plural Tuube, diminutive Tüübli)

  1. (Zürich) pigeon, dove
    • 1908, Meinrad Lienert, ’s Heiwili:
      Se fromm wie 's Tübli ufem Dach, / Se widleich wie d'Foräll im Bach.
      As bold as the little dove on the roof, as lithe as the trout in the stream.
    • 1978, Rolf Lyssey and Christa Maerker, Die Schweizermacher (transcript):
      Chaibe Tuube! Mängisch chunt me da nöd drum ume. Wo di sind, schiisids ales voll.
      Damn pigeons! Sometimes you can't avoid it. Wherever they are, they shit over everything.

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