It is interesting indeed to unwrap the literal meaning of the composite words in German. I don't entirely agree on his proposition of the meaning of 'Stimmung'

It is interesting indeed to unwrap the literal meaning of the composite words in German. I don't entirely agree on his proposition of the meaning of 'Stimmung' though. It's not just 'the voice of the situation' but rather "state of adjustment/tuning of emotions towards a situation". For instance when we [Germans] say that the "Stimmung ist getrübt" it means that most people involved have adjusted to a rather dampened mood for a particular situation. They are then not just experiencing it in a bad way, but they are also expressing their mood non-verbally.