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What are your favorite examples of German words making it into English? (lemmy.world)
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[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Iceberg

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Really?

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] nodimetotie@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

I never made the connection, thanks!

[–] Pancito@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it's Berg in the Scandinavian languages, too.

[–] Don_alForno@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago

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,... )