German term
Glück auf!
This is a small phrase that a miner says at the moment when he is in a cage and goes undeground.
In Poland we use to say SZCZĘŚĆ BOŻE, which is typical phrase for Polish miners.
4 | "Godspeed!" or leave untranslated | Justin Verceles |
3 +1 | Good luck! | Max Jeremiah |
3 | Eeyup | Michael Martin, MA |
2 | (AUT) Have a happy ascent! (and going up in the world) | Adrian MM. |
This has been asked before | Steffen Walter |
May 5, 2023 12:05: writeaway changed "Field (write-in)" from "(none)" to "Expression"
Proposed translations
"Godspeed!" or leave untranslated
There's also good precedent for leaving the phrase untranslated—see references. (The first reference actually gives another alternative translation in the next sentence: "Success attend you.")
Good luck!
(AUT) Have a happy ascent! (and going up in the world)
As for Poland, my stay at rhe Krakow Technikum Hutnicze half a century ago had been all too short and a native English Polish/English colleague, a (post-)graduate of the Royal School of Mines at London Uni's Imperial College in Kensington, and who had been an exchange student over there in Silesia in the 1950s is, alas and 'Glück ab', no longer with us to compare the German greeting.
Was heißt nun „Glück auf"? Eindeutig ist es nicht zu erklären. Nach mündlichen Überlieferungen sollen diese zwei Worte den Wunsch ausdrücken, der Bergmann möge nach der Schicht aus dem Dunkel des Schachtes *wieder glücklich aufsteigen an das Ta
AUT: Glück auf! Der Erzberg ist noch lange nicht am Ende 28. September 2012, 10:09 Uhr
Eeyup
https://www.showcaves.com/english/explain/Terminology/Luck.h...
"When I first moved from Bradford to Chesterfield I was surprised to find that locals here greeted one-another with, “Eeyup, Duck” instead of the expected “Nah-then”."
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/yor...
Reference comments
This has been asked before
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writeaway
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philgoddard
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Andrew Bramhall
: "Happy Ascent" my backside;could someone please explain the difference between the prepositions 'auf' and 'ab' to AMM; Thanks.
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