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When concatenating nouns in the german language the base noun is at the end. That ship has tank-like properties, it is not a tank that swims like a ship.
by someweirdperson 4y ago
When concatenating nouns in the german language the base noun is at the end. That ship has tank-like properties, it is not a tank that swims like a ship.
- bell-cot 4y agoShips similar to that one were a regular item in navies long before the British decided to call their secret new armored & treaded battlefield thingies with guns "water carriers", "water tanks", or "tanks", in an attempt to avoid the attention of spies. The German term for gauntlets, in the sense of "hardened leather or metal glove, worn in hand-to-hand combat by knights" is "panzerhandschuhe". What if, in German, the root meaning of "panzer" is something far closer to "armored" than to "motor-driven, treaded, all-terrain direct fires combat vehicle"?
- andrewflnr 4y agoIt does, that's literally all discussed in OP.