Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
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 ...
Tommy – German slang for a British soldier (similar to "Jerry" or "Kraut", the British and American slang terms for Germans). Totenkopf – "death's head", skull and crossbones, also the nickname for the Kampfgeschwader 54 bomber wing of the World War II era Luftwaffe. Tornister – Back pack
From the German word 'nichts' (nothing). Mox nix! – From the German phrase, Es macht nichts! Often used by U.S. service personnel to mean "It doesn't matter" or "It's not important". [2] strafe – In its sense of "to machine-gun troop assemblies and columns from the air", 'strafe' is an adaptation of the German verb strafen (to punish).
The meanings of these words do not always correspond to Germanic cognates, and occasionally the specific meaning in the list is unique to English. Those Germanic words listed below with a Frankish source mostly came into English through Anglo-Norman, and so despite ultimately deriving from Proto-Germanic, came to English through a Romance ...
See as example Category:English words: Subcategories. This category has the following 6 subcategories, out of 6 total. ... Pages in category "German words and phrases"
The L.A. River does it in a scant 50 miles, transforming it, in flood season, into a hurtling water chute. Yankee L.A. was impatient with a river that didn’t pull its weight, unnavigable for ...
auskommen - to come out/make do; Ausländer - foreigners; auslastung - utilization/workload; Ausläufer - foothills; auslöschen - to wipe out; auslösen - trigger; Ausmacht - Matter; ausnahmslos - without exception; ausradiert - erased; ausreichend - sufficient; Ausrichtung - alignment/orietnation; ausrotten - exterminate; ausruhen - take a ...