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Haha, do you know of any other such gems?

• Archelaos 2y ago
  "Amtmännin": the nickname of their mother. "Adelung": alludes to a predecessor dictionary editor.[1] The old high german word "adalunc" in its etymology was made up. I became aware of these lemmata through this article: https://www.welt.de/kultur/article4127427/Es-war-einmal-das-Woerterbuch-der-Grimms.html https://www.welt.de/kultur/article4127427/Es-war-einmal-das-... [1] Johann Christoph Adelung (1732-1806): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Adelung https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Christoph_Adelung