German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

The conventional symbol Z comes from the German word meaning number / numeral / figure, which prior to the modern synthesis of ideas from chemistry and physics, merely denoted an element's numerical place in the periodic table.

The conventional symbol Z possibly comes from the German word ( atomic number ).

Much like the relationship between British English and American English, the Austrian and German varieties differ in minor respects ( e. g., spelling, word usage and grammar ) but are recognizably equivalent and largely mutually intelligible.

The term Angst distinguishes itself from the word Furcht ( German for " fear ") in that Furcht is a negative anticipation regarding a concrete threat, while Angst is a ( possibly nondirectional ) emotion, though the terms are colloquially sometimes used synonymously.

The word Angst has existed since the 8th century, from the Proto-Indo-European root * anghu -, " restraint " from which Old High German angust developed.

The French, Portuguese, German, and Italian languages use cognates of the word " American ", in denoting " U. S. citizen ".

For example, the word " Amerika " in German has a one-to-one equivalence to its meaning in modern English: it may denote North America, South America, or both, and in some instances refers to the United States only.

The oldest known document using the German word Alphorn is a page from a 1527 account book from the former Cistercian abbey St. Urban near Pfaffnau mentioning the payment of two Batzen for an itinerant alphorn player from the Valais.

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

The name is usually derived from a toponym, Angeln, from a Germanic word * anguz meaning " narrow " ( modern High German " eng ") or " angular " ( of the shape of the Jutland peninsula ).

West Berlin issued its own postage stamps, which were often the same as West German postage stamps but with the additional word " Berlin " added.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart (" black, dark "), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy ( compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, " black ").

Stockhausen was born in the Burg Mödrath, the so-called ( by local residents ) " castle " of the village of Mödrath ( German Burg = " castle ").

The derivation of the name “ Limburg ” is not quite clear and may well hearken back to a castle built here ( Burg means “ castle ” in German ).

All the characters and groups in the play had direct counterparts in real life, with Ui representing Hitler, his henchman Ernesto Roma representing Ernst Röhm, Dogsborough representing Paul von Hindenburg ( a pun on the German Hund and Burg ), Emanuele Giri representing Hermann Göring, Giuseppe Givola representing Joseph Goebbels, the Cauliflower Trust representing the Prussian Junkers, the fate of the town of Cicero standing for the Anschluss in Austria and so on.

In High German, Burg means fortified settlement or fortified refuge ; and is a widespread component of place names.

Even though the name Riesenburg derives from the area having been called " Reisen " or " Resia " before the castle ( Burg, zamek ) had been built, the name was attributed to a giant ( Riese in German, olbrzym in Polish ), and the coat of arms, first recorded in 1405, thus depicts a giant and a castle.

Borough derives from the Old English word burh ( cognate with German Burg, meaning castle ), meaning a fortified and walled enclosure containing several households — anything from a large stockade to a fortified town.

It is a German play on words for mountain ( Berg ) and fortress ( Burg ).

* Academy Burg Fürsteneck German academy for vocational and cultural education in the castel Burg Fürsteneck

Its name is derived from German frei ( free ) and Burg ( fort ).

* The title is originally equivalent to that of castellan () or châtelain, meaning keeper of a castle and / or fortified town ( both can be called Burg in German, burg in Dutch ).

The German translation of the series adds twelve books occurring after the sixth, with Darrell ( in the German version: Dolly Rieder ) returning to a college associated with Malory Towers (" Burg Möwenfels "), the " Möwennest " ( Malory Nest -- literally " Seagulls ' Nest ").

The town is named after the castle built on a hill above the mediaeval town centre ( Burg is German for “ castle ”)

In German Burg means castle or fortress, though so many towns grew up around castles that it almost came to mean city, and is incorporated into many placenames, such as Hamburg, Flensburg and Strasbourg.

" A Mighty Fortress Is Our God " ( German, Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ) is one of the best known of Martin Luther's hymns.

He was held in the castle Gratzenstein ( now called " Burg Kreuzenstein " in German ), until March 1528.

The town's name meant " fortress near the Or ," as Burg is German for fortress.

* Interview with Justin on German / Austrian / Swiss culture channel 3sat, Burg Herzberg Festival, 17th July 2010

From 1965 to 1992, an engraving of Burg Eltz was used on the German 500 Deutsche Mark note.

For the same reason, many German placenames ending in-anz ( e. g. Ummanz ),-gard ( e. g. Burg Stargard ),-gast ( e. g. Wolgast ),-itz ( e. g. Lancken-Granitz ),-ow ( e. g. Gützkow ), and-vitz or-witz ( e. g. Malschwitz ) have Slavic roots.

The ruin's German name is Burg Falkenstein (" Castle Falcon Stone ").

Another German element of campus life is the stone inscription on the Chapel: " Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ", which English-speaking Lutherans sing as A Mighty Fortress is Our God.

As more and more Jewish musicians lost their jobs with professional organizations Steinberg united them into the Frankfurt Kulturbund Orchestra, which also gave guest performances in other German cities.

Remembering the step-by-step fate of Danzig and the West German misgivings about `` salami '' tactics, it is to be hoped that the dispatch of General Clay to West Berlin as President Kennedy's representative will mark a stiffening of response not only to future indignities and aggressions but also to some that have passed.

Other brothers later joined them for instruction with Oldenburg, the wigmaker, and also arithmetic was added to Bible reading, German, and Danish in the informal curriculum.

But there are also the commercial propagandists and the analysts -- one dominated by money, the other by nineteenth-century German scholarship.

He also used as an example the manufacturer who introduced an all-automatic camera in Germany, with the result that it became the best selling camera in the German market.

* Dialects of the Austro-Bavarian group, which also comprises the dialects of German Bavaria

German Alpen is the accusative in origin, but was made the nominative in Modern German, whence also Alm.

An abbot ( from Old English abbod, abbad, from Latin abbas (“ father ”), from Ancient Greek ἀββᾶς ( abbas ), from Aramaic ܐܒܐ / אבא (’ abbā, “ father ”); confer German Abt ; French abbé ) is the head and chief governor of a community of monks, called also in the East hegumen or archimandrite.

In French, étasunien, from États-Unis d ' Amérique, distinguishes U. S. things and persons from the adjective américain, which denotes persons and things from the United States but may also refer to ' the Americas '; likewise, the German usages U. S .- amerikanisch and U. S .- Amerikaner observe said cultural distinction, solely denoting U. S. things and people.

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

Arabic also designates Germany Almanya, and German as Almaniya.

Although Albert has received relatively little recognition in German history, his dissolution of the Teutonic State caused the founding of the Duchy of Prussia ( and also the Hohenzollern dynasty ), which would eventually become arguably the most powerful German state and instrumental in uniting the whole of Germany.

He also was impressed with the buildings he saw, and later incorporated some of the German styles into his own constructions.

It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I ( the Stammlager or base camp ); Auschwitz II – Birkenau ( the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp ); Auschwitz III – Monowitz, also known as Buna – Monowitz ( a labor camp ); and 45 satellite camps.

It is also similar to the use of quotation marks in many other languages ( including Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Catalan, Dutch and German ).

The idea has also some backing in German legend, for example the Gesta Treverorum ( a 12th century German medieval chronicle ) makes Trebeta son of Ninus the founder of Trier.

This legend of Trebeta as having founded Trier is also found in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon ( 1185 ) and several other German chronicles of the 12th or 13th century, including the works of Sigebert of Gembloux.

Müller is about 18 and a half years of age, one of Bäumer's classmates, when he also joins the German army as a volunteer to go to the war.

British, German, Jewish, and other immigrants also settled in Argentina, all bringing their styles of cooking and favorite foods with them.

Nevertheless, there was also a migratory flow of German, Swiss, and Middle-Eastern immigrants arriving in Argentina.

Viennese and German cuisine and pastries are also typically associated with this region.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.