Tagebau

Alternative forms

• Tagbau (southern)

Etymology

From Tag (“day”) +‎ -e- +‎ Bau (“building, winning, mining”). The first component refers to the (sun-lit) surface of the earth, as in the mining terms unter Tage (“below ground”) and über Tage (“above ground”). The second component is used in the sense of Abbau; compare Raubbau.

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Noun

Tagebau m (strong, genitive Tagebaus or Tagebaues, plural Tagebaue)

1. open-pit mining, opencast mining
2. open-pit mine

Further reading

• “Tagebau” in Duden online
• “Tagebau” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache