Glossary entry (derived from question below)
German term or phrase:
Kätnern
English translation:
cotter (peasant farmer)
Jan 24, 2015 18:15
9 yrs ago
German term
Kätnern
German to English
Social Sciences
Genealogy
Demmin was a small village with small-scale farmers, Kätnern and forestry workers, there was neither a restaurant nor a business.
Proposed translations
(English)
4 +3 | cotter (peasant farmer) | EK Yokohama |
4 +4 | cottagers | Kim Metzger |
4 | smallholders | AllegroTrans |
3 | crofter | Yorkshireman |
Proposed translations
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German term (edited):
Kätner
Selected
cotter (peasant farmer)
Kätner - ein abhängiger Kleinbauer oder Tagelöhner, der in einer Kate wohnt oder lebt
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kätner
"Kötter
Kötter, Köter, Köthner, Kötner, Kätner oder Kotsassen, vor allem in Preußen und Mecklenburg auch Kossat(h)en, Kossater oder Kossäten, waren Dorfbewohner, die einen Kotten bzw. eine Kate besaßen. Kötter können in Deutschland ab dem 14. Jahrhundert belegt werden.
Die Höfe der Kötter waren meist am Dorfrand angesiedelt oder von alten Höfen abgeteilt. Da der Ertrag häufig nicht für den Lebensunterhalt ausreichte, verrichteten sie meist zusätzlich handwerkliche Arbeiten oder arbeiteten als Tagelöhner auf Bauern- und Herrenhöfen. Ihr Landbesitz betrug meist eine achtel bis zu einer halben Hufe, sie besaßen wenig Vieh und nicht mehr als ein Pferd."
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kötter
German: Kate - English: cottage
"Cotter (farmer)
Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small plots of land. The word cotter is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout England, being principally in the southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in working on the holdings of the villani. Like the villani, among whom they were frequently classed, their economic condition may be described as free in relation to every one except their lord.
A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant renting land from a farmer or landlord."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(farmer)
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Kätner
"Kötter
Kötter, Köter, Köthner, Kötner, Kätner oder Kotsassen, vor allem in Preußen und Mecklenburg auch Kossat(h)en, Kossater oder Kossäten, waren Dorfbewohner, die einen Kotten bzw. eine Kate besaßen. Kötter können in Deutschland ab dem 14. Jahrhundert belegt werden.
Die Höfe der Kötter waren meist am Dorfrand angesiedelt oder von alten Höfen abgeteilt. Da der Ertrag häufig nicht für den Lebensunterhalt ausreichte, verrichteten sie meist zusätzlich handwerkliche Arbeiten oder arbeiteten als Tagelöhner auf Bauern- und Herrenhöfen. Ihr Landbesitz betrug meist eine achtel bis zu einer halben Hufe, sie besaßen wenig Vieh und nicht mehr als ein Pferd."
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kötter
German: Kate - English: cottage
"Cotter (farmer)
Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small plots of land. The word cotter is often employed to translate the cotarius of Domesday Book, a class whose exact status has been the subject of some discussion, and is still a matter of doubt. According to Domesday, the cotarii were comparatively few, numbering less than seven thousand, and were scattered unevenly throughout England, being principally in the southern counties; they were occupied either in cultivating a small plot of land, or in working on the holdings of the villani. Like the villani, among whom they were frequently classed, their economic condition may be described as free in relation to every one except their lord.
A cottar or cottier is also a term for a tenant renting land from a farmer or landlord."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotter_(farmer)
Peer comment(s):
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AllegroTrans
: Both terms are virtually archaic, so everything depends on the era here
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Exactly. I tried to find the archaic English equivalent for this outdated German word which now only appears in family names etc. Please have a nice evening.
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Ramey Rieger (X)
: Also good.
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agree |
Lancashireman
: Manages to avoid the pitfalls of 'cottager' in its modern sense. Convincing arguments also in the Discussion Box.
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Thank you really very much, Andrew.
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Yorkshireman
: Agree - though I've seen it more often as "Kötner" here in Lower Saxony - there's a "Kötnerholzweg" not far from here, with a superb Spanish restaurant..
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "Thank you very much. This is helpful information"
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cottagers
Muret-Sanders
COTTAGER A rural labourer, A tenant who leased a cottage and plot of land where they grew their own produce and often kept a small amount of livestock.
http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupa...
COTTAGER A rural labourer, A tenant who leased a cottage and plot of land where they grew their own produce and often kept a small amount of livestock.
http://www.worldthroughthelens.com/family-history/old-occupa...
Peer comment(s):
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Lucas Zimmerman
: Agreed, this is the best definition I can came up with for the term.
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agree |
BrigitteHilgner
13 hrs
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agree |
Ramey Rieger (X)
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agree |
Yorkshireman
: Agree - though I've seen it more often as "Kötner" here in Lower Saxony
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smallholders
I have made the assumption that the asker wants UK/European English. If this is for USA it might not work.
smallholder
English
Noun
smallholder (plural smallholders)
(UK) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
(US) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
"…planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway
smallholder
English
Noun
smallholder (plural smallholders)
(UK) A person who owns or runs a smallholding.
(US) A small slaveholder, a person who owns a smallholding.
"…planters and smallholders alike controlled far more than their equitable share of the political power and economic resources in their communities. Because small slaveholders aspired to be planters, they did not often align themselves with the political and economic interests of nonslaveholders." (Wilma P. Dunaway
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crofter
Quite a common term for farmers farming a small area of land.
Definition: a person who rents and works a small farm, especially in Scotland or northern England.
(British) an owner or tenant of a small farm, esp in Scotland or northern England
Croft: a small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms.
A UK term. The US equivalent is "sharecropper"
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Plural: crofters
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There is also the term "tenant farmer", possible if they were farming land belonging to larger landowners.
A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
Definition: a person who rents and works a small farm, especially in Scotland or northern England.
(British) an owner or tenant of a small farm, esp in Scotland or northern England
Croft: a small rented farm, especially one in Scotland, comprising a plot of arable land attached to a house and with a right of pasturage held in common with other such farms.
A UK term. The US equivalent is "sharecropper"
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Plural: crofters
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Note added at 2 days14 hrs (2015-01-27 08:57:47 GMT)
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There is also the term "tenant farmer", possible if they were farming land belonging to larger landowners.
A person who farms the land of another and pays rent with cash or with a portion of the produce.
Peer comment(s):
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AllegroTrans
: Not "wrong" but very localised to Scotland (e.g. term never heard in Ireland)// by gum no, me from Stockport
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Then you're not from Donegal :-)
Know it well - used to travel by train from Stockport to Stalybridge on the way home to Leeds from college every weekend A bloody cold station in winter.
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Discussion
"Smallholders and tenant farmers" seems to me to fit quite well
Ja, genau. Und mit "Geschäft" ist vielleicht eher ein "shop" gemeint als ein "business".
Dort ist auch die Version "Kätner" erwähnt, die nicht mehr gebräuchlich ist.
Die Version "-kötter" taucht nur noch in Familiennamen auf, z. B. "Horstkötter".
VG