Tornister.
knapsack of a soldier
Meaning & usage
knapsack of a soldier
schoolbag, rectangular satchel employed by pupils to carry utilities to school
Where this word comes from
17th century, from slightly earlier Tanister, from Czech tanystra (now obsolete), from Hungarian tanisztra (and variants, now tarisznya). Further from Byzantine Greek τάγιστρον (tágistron, “nosebag”), or Latin canistrum (“wicker basket”), or a merger of both. The change of the first syllable from Ta- to Tor- in German is probably from dialectal influence (either directly or by way of hypercorrection).
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