German help

[Sysman]

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

A good guess. Sometimes lateral thinking for translations can lead you up a blind alley, but not in this case.

Shoving "chequered" in on Leo gives amongst other results schachbrettartig - "chess board like".

[VectraMan]

Pretty good uneducated guess. Even if OwlHoot went back and edited his post to make it look like he thought of it first.

[mudskipper]

If the verb is schachten (i.e. to shaft), then "shafted" would be right, if that makes any sense.

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

You should be on eggheads! Cheers.

[mudskipper]

Well "schacht" means "shaft", according to Google translate. So I guess the full word is some archaic German heraldic term along the lines of "beshafted".

edit: try running this through Google translate.

edit #2: Done it, out of curiosity:



So evidently it means "chequered" (or whatever the British heraldic equivalent is).

Brilliant - ta - "you must spread it around" etc. - I'll owe you!

[mudskipper]

Yup, see the second edit to my reply above.

Ah, sorry, didn't see your edit.

Yes - that sounds like it. It is chequered.

[OwlHoot]

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

Yup, see the second edit to my reply above.

[mudskipper]

Have a looky at these suggestions

dict.cc | geschachteten | Wörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch

Cheers - doesn't seem to be a good match there. It's probably not too critical to the general gist of what he's saying.

[VectraMan]

Well "schacht" means "shaft", according to Google translate. So I guess the full word is some archaic German heraldic term along the lines of "beshafted".

If the verb is schachten (i.e. to shaft), then "shafted" would be right, if that makes any sense.

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

[mudskipper]

Well "schacht" means "shaft", according to Google translate. So I guess the full word is some archaic German heraldic term along the lines of "beshafted".

edit: try running this through Google translate.

Sounds painful!

[Pondlife]

Have a looky at these suggestions

dict.cc | geschachteten | Wörterbuch Englisch-Deutsch

[OwlHoot]

Doing an OU course in Renaissance art. For my final project I'm doing a stained glass window from the Mariawald abbey in Germany (now in V&A). A very helpful chap sent me an email, and google translate has done a pretty good job on most of it. But there is one word it didn't get (perhaps a typo in the original?)

The coat of arms shows the red and yellow diagonal bars geschachteten the Cistercians and the two side panels each a torch.

Original:

Das Wappen zeigt den rot und gelb geschachteten Schrägbalken der Zisterzienser und in den beiden Seitenfeldern je eine Fackel.

I'm assuming something like 'representing' ?

Any suggestions?

TIA

Well "schacht" means "shaft", according to Google translate. So I guess the full word is some archaic German heraldic term along the lines of "beshafted".

edit: try running this through Google translate.

edit #2: Done it, out of curiosity:

Geschacht also geplätzelt, cubed, square pieces, chess, symbolic cards, square chip is, in heraldry, the term for a multiple fission and divide a shield into several equal-sized square spaces that must alternate in the tincture (checkerboard pattern). It is a Herald image.

So evidently it means "chequered" (or whatever the British heraldic equivalent is).

[Paddy]

Yeah - I'd ruled that one out before asking the question...

[mudskipper]

geschächteten

Yeah - I'd ruled that one out before asking the question...

[Paddy]

Doing an OU course in Renaissance art. For my final project I'm doing a stained glass window from the Mariawald abbey in Germany (now in V&A). A very helpful chap sent me an email, and google translate has done a pretty good job on most of it. But there is one word it didn't get (perhaps a typo in the original?)

The coat of arms shows the red and yellow diagonal bars geschachteten the Cistercians and the two side panels each a torch.

Original:

Das Wappen zeigt den rot und gelb geschachteten Schrägbalken der Zisterzienser und in den beiden Seitenfeldern je eine Fackel.

I'm assuming something like 'representing' ?

Any suggestions?

TIA

geschächteten

[mudskipper]

Doing an OU course in Renaissance art. For my final project I'm doing a stained glass window from the Mariawald abbey in Germany (now in V&A). A very helpful chap sent me an email, and google translate has done a pretty good job on most of it. But there is one word it didn't get (perhaps a typo in the original?)

The coat of arms shows the red and yellow diagonal bars geschachteten the Cistercians and the two side panels each a torch.

Original:

Das Wappen zeigt den rot und gelb geschachteten Schrägbalken der Zisterzienser und in den beiden Seitenfeldern je eine Fackel.

I'm assuming something like 'representing' ?

Any suggestions?

TIA