@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 months agoWhat are your favorite examples of German words making it into English?message-square92fedilinkarrow-up149arrow-down11
arrow-up148arrow-down1message-squareWhat are your favorite examples of German words making it into English?@[email protected] to [email protected]English • 7 months agomessage-square92fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•edit-27 months agoI mean the English usually don’t call mountains Berg, right? Berg is German for mountain. Ice of course being Eis. And we like compound words.
minus-squareInternationalBastardlinkfedilink3•7 months agoBut it’s Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•7 months agoThey are germanic languages after all. There are many words you’ll find in German and e.g. Norwegian, especially if you overlook slight spelling differences (endings, v or f, s or z,… )
minus-square@[email protected]OPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoI never made the connection, thanks!
I mean the English usually don’t call mountains Berg, right? Berg is German for mountain. Ice of course being Eis. And we like compound words.
But it’s Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.
They are germanic languages after all. There are many words you’ll find in German and e.g. Norwegian, especially if you overlook slight spelling differences (endings, v or f, s or z,… )
I never made the connection, thanks!