TY - JOUR A1 - Haldenwang, Sigrid T1 - Die Hebamme und ihre Benennungen im Siebenbürgisch-Sächsischen T2 - Germanistische Beiträge N2 - This article covers midwives as such and their designations in the Transylvanian-Saxon vernaculars in detail with emphasis on the early documentary evidence in the first half of the 16th century as well as from the 18th century. The lexemes correlate their respective categories of word formation and show descriptive series of synonyms depicting at the same time the composition of the Transylvanian-Saxon vocabulary. Comments on the etymology of the word formations as well as on the midwife‘s profession are also included. The terms are taken from the Transylvanian-Saxon Dictionary and the North Transylvanian Saxon Dictionary as well as the specialist literature on vernacular. KW - designation KW - midwife KW - Transylvanian-Saxon vernacular KW - composition of vocabulary KW - word formation KW - series of synonyms Y1 - 2020 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/65096 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-650968 SN - 2247-4633 SN - 1454-5144 VL - 46 SP - 283 EP - 305 PB - Lehrstuhl für Germanistik an der Lucian-Blaga-Universität Sibiu/Hermannstadt CY - Sibiu / Hermannstadt ER -