en Ääz am Wandere hann
Central Franconian
editAlternative forms
edit- en Ääts am Wandere hann (variant spelling)
Etymology
editLiterally: “to have a travelling pea”. Probably from the idea that a pea has moved to some wrong place in one's body (or at least sometimes thus interpreted). Compare also the Princess and the Pea.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit- (Ripuarian, idiomatic) to be crazy, to have lost it
- 1998, “Mer bruche keiner”[1]performed by Bläck Fööss:
- Et jitt jo Lück, die iwig schlauer sinn als andere... jo, dat kennt mer jo!
Die Jecke hann doch bluß en Ääz am Wandere... jo, och dat es wohr!- There are those people who're always smarter than the others... yeah, we're familiar with that!
Those crazies, they have really lost it.... yeah, that's true as well!
- There are those people who're always smarter than the others... yeah, we're familiar with that!