Hey everyone, got kind of a weird question today. So I'm working on multi-ethnic army units in the Austrian Army during the First World War, with my evidence coming from soldiers' diaries and memoirs. I've got this one in front of me in which the Czech soldier appears to use a bastardized German word, transliterating it into Czech orthography in his diary. The word in Czech is "tákšars," in this context referring to a commissioned officer - denní důstojník" tasked with the duty of handing out daily guard duty and other soldierly activities to the enlisted. The word tákšars isn't Czech at all, and I suspect it comes from a German word referring to an officer with "daily duties" or something of that nature. The first part of the word seems obvious: "ták-" corresponds the German "Tag-" but the second part of the word is really throwing me for a loop. Transliterating the word fragment into German would yield something like "schars" or "scharz" or maybe "schärs." Can anyone figure out what this second bit might be? It would really help me out and would be a great piece of evidence in my paper, but I'm hesitant to use it without knowing what the actual German word is.