| 词汇 | german words in english |
| 词源 | German words in English. English is of course structurally Germanic and is considered a Germanic language because of its Anglo-Saxon roots, but many words from Germanic lan- guages have come into English at a later time in history, from the Middle Ages up until the present. A brief sample of these include: junker, lobby, carouse, plunder, saber, zinc, hamster, cobalt, shale, quartz, feldspar, gneiss, nickel, meerschaum, waltz, zigzag, iceberg, poodle, spitz, dachshund, zither, leit- motiv, yodel, protein, paraffin, ohm, poltergeist, rucksack, semester, kindergarten, seminar, poker, and bum. Words in American English of German origin include the following: fresh (impudent), bub, hex, hausfrau, loafer, nix, ouch, phoo- ey, wunderkind, spiel, Kris Kringle, Christmas tree, semester, seminar, noodle, sauerkraut, pretzel, lager beer, bock beer, frankfurter, hamburger, liverwurst, sauerbraten, pumper- nickel, schnitzel, delicatessen, snits, wienerwurst, zweiback, stollen, dunk, bake oven, and how!, cookbook, ecology, gabfest, check (restaurant tab), hold on, hoodlum, klutz, loafer, rifle, scram, slim chance, shyster, gesundheit, schnapps, standpoint, wisenheimer, wanderlust. |
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