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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 ...
Pages in category "German words and phrases" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 395 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Fruchtblätter - carpels/fruit leaves; Fruchtknoten - ovary; Frust - frustration; fröhliche - happy; Fröhlichkeit - happiness; Frühling - spring; Führungslosigkeit - lack of leadship; Fundament - foundation/footing; funkeln - sparkle; funktionieren - function; furchtbaren - terrible; furchtsam- scary; Fuß - foot; Fußabdruck - footprint ...
Dry, one-seeded indehiscent fruit [11] in which the true fruit is not the so-called "berry", but the achenes, which are the so-called "seeds" on the infructescence, e.g. in the genus Fragaria. acicular Slender or needle-shaped. [11] See also Leaf shape. acropetal Moving from roots to leaves, e.g. of molecular signals in plants. acrophyll
A type of German Christmas biscuit made of flour, butter, sugar and eggs. Spritzkuchen: A fried pastry similar to doughnuts: Stollen: A fruit cake containing dried fruit and often marzipan and covered with sugar, powdered sugar or icing sugar. Streusel: A crumbly topping of flour, butter, and sugar Streuselkuchen: A yeast dough covered with ...
The Deutsches Wörterbuch (German: [ˌdɔʏtʃəs ˈvœʁtɐbuːx]; "The German Dictionary"), abbreviated DWB, is the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of the German language in existence. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Encompassing modern High German vocabulary in use since 1450, it also includes loanwords adopted from other languages into German.
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 ...
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.