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| Dylanarama Newbie United States Joined 5248 days ago 30 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 9 30 April 2011 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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What are some languages with a lot of Germanic loan words. All I can think of are Estonian and maybe Indonesian(because of Dutch). I want to leave out languages that borrowed from English because that is no fun. Are there any other languages?
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5262 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 9 30 April 2011 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been told that Finnish has a lot of Swedish loan words. Some of them are very old loans, and can therefore be
hard to recognise. The Sami languages probably have lots of borrowings from Swedish and Norwegian. Romance languages have some old loan words from Germanic languages. Some Germanic loan words in Spanish (not all of them very old): guerra, yelmo, blanco, burgo, guante, fiordo, esquí, eslalom. Some in French: jardin, guichet, hamster, hagard. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Haukilahti Triglot Groupie Finland Joined 4773 days ago 94 posts - 126 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Polish | Message 3 of 9 30 April 2011 at 9:41pm | IP Logged | ||
The oldest loan words are from Old German, not Swedish. "Kuningas" is an example of an old word that is more similar to the original in Finnish than in Germanic languages (King, König, ...) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5280 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 4 of 9 30 April 2011 at 10:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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At the risk of sounding so obvious it could seem tongue-in-cheek, English. English has a lot of Norse words, a good number of borrowings from Dutch, German and Afrikaans, and even Germanic words that came in through French, like 'guardian' (the same word, without having gone through the French 'strainer', is 'warden'.) But I imagine that the purpose of this thread is not to discuss inter-family loans between Germanic languages.
If French 'jardin' is a Germanic word then Spanish 'jardín' also is. A couple of other Germanic words in Spanish are 'guardia' and 'guardián'. Edited by getreallanguage on 30 April 2011 at 10:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| imm1234 Triglot Newbie Czech Republic Joined 4749 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: English*, French, Czech | Message 6 of 9 25 May 2011 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, Czech has quite a few German loan words. These include:
knedlík, furt, hergot, hejtman, šunka, taška, brýle, rytíř. There are also quite a few calques. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5080 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 7 of 9 02 July 2011 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Latvian is full of Germanic loan words, of course modified:
stārķis - Storch (German) bikses - byxor (Swedish) zāģis - Säge (German) dienests - Dienst (German) glāze - Glas (German) kaste - Kasten (German) ķirsis - Kirsche (German) niere - njure (Swedish) panna - Pfanne (German) rēķināt - rechnen (German) šmuce - Schmutze (German) These are only some of the words that come in my at this moment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| s0fist Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4855 days ago 260 posts - 445 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Sign Language, German, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 9 02 July 2011 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian has a decent German-borrowed wordbase.
borrowed words in Russian wikipedia here's a short copy pasted list from the above wikipedia article: абзац — Absatz абрис — Abriss — обведенный контур, рисунок автобан — Autobahn — атомобильная дорога, трасса айсберг — Eisberg — ледяная гора аксельбант — Achselband — наплечная лента аншлюс — Anschluss аншлаг — Anschlag — объявление (то есть в данном случае объявление «Все билеты проданы») арест — Arrest бакенбарды — Backenbart — борода на щеках бант — Band — лента блицкриг — Blitzkrieg — молниеносная война брандмауэр — Brandmauer — противопожарная стена дуршлаг — Durchschlag — пробить, пробросить сквозь что-то егерь — Jäger — охотник ефрейтор — Gefreiter — освобожденный 1 person has voted this message useful |
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