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What do you mean the German comes from the Latin?
by jjtheblunt 1y ago
What do you mean the German comes from the Latin?
- card_zero 1y agoFor instance here: https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Gegenstand https://www.dwds.de/wb/etymwb/Gegenstand Gegenstand is in the middle of the page: "lat. obiectum", it says - "translation of Latin obiectum into philosopher-speak".
- schoen 1y agoGerman has often taken terminology from Latin by translation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued_from_Latin https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:German_terms_calqued... A nice example (of many!) is überleben, calqued from supervivere (literally, to over-live).