Ampel
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle High German ampel, ampolle, ampulle, from Old High German ampla, ampulla (“vessel”), from Proto-West Germanic *ampullā (“flask, cruse”). The sense development was vessel → hanging lamp (in or shaped like a vessel) → traffic light. Doublet of Ampulle.
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[edit]Ampel f (genitive Ampel, plural Ampeln)
- traffic light
- (German politics, informal) Ellipsis of Ampelkoalition.
- 2010, Der Spiegel[1], number 22/2010, page 13:
- Alles ist möglich. Das ist bislang die Botschaft, die führende Sozialdemokraten in Berlin und in Düsseldorf verbreiten. Eine Ampel mit FDP und Grünen, eine Minderheitsregierung, Neuwahlen, […]
- Everything is possible. That is the message that is spread up to now by leading Social Democrats in Berlin and Düsseldorf. A "traffic light coalition" with the FDP and Green Party, a minority government, new elections, […]
- 2021 December 8, Gareth Joswig, “Innenausschuss-Vorsitz geht an AfD: Schlecht gewählt”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz[2], →ISSN:
- Die Ampel hat es vergeigt: Die Fraktionen von SPD, Grünen und FDP im Bundestag hätten verhindern können, dass die AfD den Vorsitzenden des Innenausschusses stellt.
- The "traffic light" [government] screwed up: The factions of SPD, Greens, and FDP in the Bundestag [parliament] could have prevented the AfD from getting one of theirs into the position of Chief of the Committee for the Interior.
- ceiling lamp (lamp which hangs from the ceiling)
- container (e.g. for a plant) which hangs from the ceiling
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