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 ").

The word town shares an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun.

*" tūn "-root of the modern English " town ", and is a cognate of German Zaun ( fence ), Dutch tuin ( garden ) and Icelandic tún ( paddock ).

It comes, along with the name of the River Aar ( which was called Arula, Arola, and Araris in early times ), from the German Au, meaning floodplain.

German haben ( like English have ) in fact comes from PIE * kap, ' to grasp ', and its real cognate in Latin is capere, ' to seize, grasp, capture '.

For example, in German dictionaries the word ökonomisch comes between offenbar and olfaktorisch, while Turkish dictionaries treat o and ö as different letters, placing oyun before öbür.

In 1877, German physiologist Wilhelm Kühne ( 1837 – 1900 ) first used the term enzyme, which comes from Greek ενζυμον, " in leaven ", to describe this process.

The Modern English word " fox " is Old English, and comes from the Proto-Germanic word fukh – compare German Fuchs, Gothic fauho, Old Norse foa and Dutch vos.

The English word guitar, the German, and the French were adopted from the Spanish, which comes from the Andalusian Arabic, itself derived from the Latin, which in turn came from the Ancient Greek, and is thought to ultimately trace back to the Old Persian language Tar, which means string in Persian.

German wine comes predominantly from the areas along the upper and middle Rhine and its tributaries.

Some publishers design games that contain instructions and game elements in more than one language, e. g. the game Ursuppe comes with rules and cards in both German and English ; Khronos features instructions in French, English, and German, and a Swiss game, Enchanted Owls, provides French, German, Italian, and Romansh rules.

The name " gimlet " comes from the Old French guinbelet, guimbelet, later guibelet, probably a diminutive of the Anglo-French " wimble ", a variation of " guimble ", from the Middle Low German wiemel, cf.

Some sources say it comes from the Middle High German verb ( to spark ; so called because the rock glitters ).

The title comes from the German noun " Hexen ", which means " witches " or the verb " hexen " which means " to cast a spell ".

* German martingale or Market Harborough: This design consists of a split fork that comes up from the chest, runs through the rings of the bit and attaches to the reins of the bridle between the bit and the rider's hand.

The abbreviation " IQ " comes from the German term Intelligenz-Quotient, originally coined by psychologist William Stern.

The name comes from the German Kohl (" cabbage ") plus Rübe ~ Rabi ( Swiss German variant ) (" turnip "), because the swollen stem resembles the latter, hence its Austrian name Kohlrübe.

:* is the value of the product of the period ( comes from the German word for value: wert )

Another report comes from the writings of German Captain Freiherr von Stein zu Lausnitz, who was ordered to conduct a survey of German colonies in what is now Cameroon in 1913.

The element name comes from a mischievous sprite of German miner's mythology, Nickel ( similar to Old Nick ), that personified the fact that copper-nickel ores resisted refinement into copper.

The word poltergeist comes from the German words poltern (" to make noise ") and Geist (" ghost "), and the term itself literally means " noisy ghost ".

The preface explains that the original concept of a general system theory was " Allgemeine Systemtheorie ( or Lehre )", pointing out the fact that " Theorie " ( or " Lehre ") just as " Wissenschaft " ( translated Scholarship ), " has a much broader meaning in German than the closest English words ‘ theory ’ and ‘ science '".

With these ideas referring to an organized body of knowledge and " any systematically presented set of concepts, whether they are empirical, axiomatic, or philosophical, " Lehre " is associated with theory and science in the etymology of general systems, but also does not translate from the German very well ; " teaching " is the " closest equivalent ", but " sounds dogmatic and off the mark ".

This closest cutter is known as the " feature ", or " German.

German intelligence used the agent reports to construct an order of battle for the Allied forces that placed the centre of gravity of the invasion force opposite Pas de Calais, the point on the French coast closest to England and therefore a likely invasion site.

In 1974, Brandt resigned as Chancellor after Günter Guillaume, one of his closest aides, was exposed as an agent of the Stasi, the East German secret service.

As a result of FUSAG's having been placed in the south-east, German intelligence would ( and did ) deduce that the center of the invasion force was opposite Calais, the point on the French coast closest to England and therefore a likely landing point.

The German cavalry screen proved effective at delaying them, and by the time the battle was already over their closest unit was still to the northwest of the initial contact between XVII German Corps and VI Russian Corps, perhaps as much as from the trapped Second Army.

Balakirev's sympathies and closest contacts were in the latter camp, and he frequently made derogatory comments about the German " routine " which, he believed, came at the expense of the composer's originality.

The most recent German Transrapid line project, and the one that came closest to being built, having previously been approved, was an airport connection track from Munich Railway Station to Munich Airport, which was eventually cancelled in early 2008 due to dramatically increasing cost projections.

In all other languages using a word derived from the Greek for this figure, the form closest to trapezium ( e. g. French trapèze, Italian trapezio, German Trapez, Russian трапеция ) is used.

In 1823 a German competition was held to perfect the production process: the goal was to develop an alloy that possessed the closest visual similarity to silver.

When asked for a creed, most Old German Baptist Brethren claim that the New Testament is the closest thing they have to a creed.

With special equipment reception of Swedish terrestrial transmitters is possible even on some parts of the Finnish coast as well as the Polish and German coast closest to Sweden.

The closest German equivalent of the gingerbread man is the Honigkuchenpferd ( honey cake horse ).

This tradition survived in German language where Slavs living in closest proximity to Germany were originally called Wenden or Winden ( see Wends ), while the people of the Austrian federal lands Styria and Carinthia referred to their Slavic neighbours as Windische.

" have been translated by Belgian-German singer / songwriter Didier Caesar alias Dieter Kaiser into the German language, the closest possible to the original texts, in rhymes and singable according to the original melody.

The closest common German term would be " Höllenhunde " which means " hellhound ".

German intelligence used the agent reports to construct an order of battle for the Allied forces that placed the center of gravity of the invasion force opposite Pas de Calais, the point on the French coast closest to England and therefore a likely invasion site.

Newer research shows his position within the SdP became very difficult, when in 1937 Heinz Rutha, one of his closest allies, was tipped off to the Czechoslovak authorities ( possibly by German secret service ) and imprisoned for alleged homosexuality.

It was distinguished from the German Conservative Party established in 1876 by its unqualified support of German unification, and was seen as the political party which beside the National Liberals was closest in views to those of Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, including his Anti-Socialist Laws and Kulturkampf policies.

Kryukovo was where German forces came the closest to Moscow ( 41 km ) during World War II.

The German pilot Wolfram Hirth ( Kl 32 ) was the best, taking off from the closest distance ( 91. 6m-40 pts ), two Italians Colombo and Lombardi scored 40 points as well, other Klemms and Bredas were also at the head.