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A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterisation of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilisation and humanitarian values having ...
Copenhagen's name (København in Danish), reflects its origin as a harbour and a place of commerce.The original designation in Old Norse, from which Danish descends, was Kaupmannahǫfn [ˈkɔupˌmɑnːɑˌhɔvn] (cf. modern Icelandic: Kaupmannahöfn [ˈkʰœipˌmanːaˌhœpn̥], Faroese: Keypmannahavn), meaning 'merchants' harbour'.
"zarkor" (searchlight) from German "Scheinwerfer" (light-thrower=>zorek-or, contracted to "zarkor") iton (newspaper) from German Zeitung and Yiddish צײַטוּנג tsaytung (Zeit and Et both mean time or era, first syllable e become i with the -on suffix) tappuach adamah (potato) from French pomme-de-terre; gan yeladim from German Kindergarten
Below is list of German language exonyms for places in Denmark. This article does not include spelling changes with the same rough pronunciation, names spelled alike, and the predictable sending changes shown below: -ager -bjerg -bøl -borg -havn -lev -sted -ved → -agger -berg -büll -burg -hagen -leff -stedt -vedt
A specialized dictionary is a dictionary that covers a relatively restricted set of phenomena. The definitive book on the subject (Cowie 2009) includes chapters on some of the dictionaries included below: synonyms; pronunciations; names (place names and personal names) phrases and idioms; dialect terms; slang; quotations; etymologies; rhymes ...
The first comprehensive German dictionary developed on historical principles. Begun in 1838, first published in 1854, completed in 1961, supplemented 1971. Technologisches Wörterbuch of German, French and English and other languages by Johann Adam Beil, 1853. An early technical dictionary. Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache by Daniel Sanders ...
A top government watchdog raised concerns Tuesday over the handling of leak investigations during the first Trump administration that targeted members of Congress and the media despite finding no ...
Traditionally, there are dialectal differences between the regions of German-speaking Europe, especially visible in the forms of hypocorisms.These differences are still perceptible in the list of most popular names, even though they are marginalized by super-regional fashionable trends: As of 2012, the top ten given names of Baden-Württemberg (Southern Germany) and of Schleswig-Holstein ...