Abstecher

Meaning

detour, side trip

Concepts

trip

excursion

detour

trips

redirection

diversion

digression

Synonyms

Umweg

Umlenkung

Umschweif

Schlenker

Abschweifung

Exkurs

Umleitung

Ausflug

Einschub

Abweichung

Translations

digresión

crochet

🪝

digressão

digressione

détour

faire un détour

promenade

🚶

virée

escursione

gita

uitweiding

digressie

excursão

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈapˌʃtɛçɐ/

Etymology

From now-obsolete Dutch een afsteker maken (“to go by one of the boats of a ship”) (compare modern Dutch afsteken (“to set sail”)), synchronically analyzable as abstechen (“to cut out”) + -er; the German verb means in some contexts “to contrast, to diverge” and possibly also “to branch off” (compare Stichstraße (“small dead-end street branching off from a road”)), hence the further semantic development.