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2. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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   As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling (Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ("fish" = Fisch, "mouse" = Maus), or both (Arm, Ring); these are ...

3. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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   This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

4. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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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 characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...

5. Denglisch - Wikipedia

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   The popular German a cappella group Wise Guys produced a song on their Radio album called "Denglisch", a tongue-in-cheek look at the use of English words in German language. In the song, the lyrics start out mostly German with only a few English words creeping in: "Oh, Herr, bitte gib mir meine Sprache zurück!" (O Lord, please give me my ...

6. Wikipedia:Language learning centre/German word list - Wikipedia

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   antikörpertest - antibody test; Antiquität - antique; antreten - compete; Antrieb - drive; anträgen - requests; antworten - to answer; anvertrauen - entrust; anvertraut - entrusted; Anwaltskanzlei - law firm; anwenden - apply; anwendung - application; anwohner - local residents; anzichen - to get dressed; anzuecken - offend; anzugehen - to ...

7. List of English Latinates of Germanic origin - Wikipedia

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   Quite a few of these words can further trace their origins back to a Germanic source (usually Frankish [1]), making them cognate with many native English words from Old English, yielding etymological twins. Many of these are Franco-German words, or French words of Germanic origin. [2]

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9. Foreign-language influences in English - Wikipedia

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   As a result, many words are distantly related to German. Most German words relating to World War I and World War II found their way into the English language, words such as Blitzkrieg, Anschluss, Führer, and Lebensraum; food terms, such as bratwurst, hamburger and frankfurter; words related to psychology and philosophy, such as gestalt ...