English translation of "ständische Zusammenschlüsse" - "GUILD"

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208 months ago

Angelika Inglis asked this question:

Language pair:	German > English
Subject:	Other
Level of diffculty:	Easy / medium
Word or term in question:	ständische Zusammenschlüsse
Context:	...die im 18. Jahrhundert in Europa und Amerika entstandenen Gesellschaften,
Keywords:	die sich von den bisherigen ständischen Zusammenschlüssen und von den Vereinen des 19. Jahrhunderts unterschieden. Historischer Kontext, deshalb sollte "staendisch" im Zusammenhang mit "estate" uebersetzt werden, hiervon gibt es aber kein Adjektiv, oder?

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208 months ago

German Translations & Interpreting wrote:

guild

My comment:

or alternatively: professional-estate associations

208 months ago

Rupert Kindermann wrote:

GUILD

My comment:

Your text is historical and GUILD is in German ZUNFT - which is the historical expression for Professional Organisations (as used today) - I don't think St�ndisch should become Estate ... ???? That's a BERUFS-STAND the way I read it.

My references:

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=de&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=on&chinese=both&pinyin=diacritic&search=zunft&relink=on

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