Zettel

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Zettel is the 34272nd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 662 individuals. Zettel is most common among White (96.83%) individuals.

Etymology 1
Early Modern High German, , from , , a loan from , from , , the diminutive of , ultimately from. Cognate to 🇨🇬, Palatine 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The spelling with -tt- was found from the 15th century in Upper German; the spelling with -dd- persisted until the 19th century, primarily in authors from Central or Northern Germany. Luther mostly writes zedel, Goethe alternates between zeddel and zettel. The (now obsolete) spelling variant zettul is influenced by 🇨🇬.

Occasional weak inflection was found in Middle High German and persisted into the 18th century. The original feminine gender was retained until Luther's time, but occasional masculine or neuter gender was found by the late Middle High German period. The masculine gender has predominated since the 19th century.

Noun

 * 1) a small or loose piece of paper, slip
 * 2) note, message, letter
 * 3) * 1511, Albrecht von Eyb, Spiegel der Sitten, Augsburg, 92v. (O 2b):
 * "de"
 * "de"

- name er sollich zedel der klagen, verprennet sy und sprach


 * 1) poster, placard, public notice
 * 2) * 1725, Chr. Thomasius, Gedanken und Erinnerungen, Marburg, 3, 104:
 * "de"
 * "de"

- ohnerachtet herr d. Pf. meinen zettul vom schwartzen brette hatte abreiszen lassen

Etymology 2
A technical term in weaving recorded from the later 15th century (in Middle High German in the compound ). The noun is derived from the verb via the suffix  denoting tools (as in, ). The verb zetten itself is from, whence also 🇨🇬.

In German translations of Shakespeare's  the name of the weaver Nick Bottom (one of the “rude mechanicals,” from replaced by a German technical term of weaving following, 1762).

Noun

 * 1)   warp

Noun

 * 1) note