{"id":13692,"date":"2020-08-31T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=13692"},"modified":"2020-09-03T18:34:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T22:34:24","slug":"13692-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/13692-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Spanish Words of Foreign Origin: Germanismos (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let’s continue with the Spanish words of Germanic origin:<\/p>\n

Falda<\/strong>: From Old Hogh German faldan<\/em>, which meant \u201cto fold\u201d, it became the noun for \u201cskirt\u201d in today\u2019s Spanish.<\/p>\n

Fresco<\/strong>: From Germanic frisk<\/em>, meaning \u201cfresh\u201d. One may notice the Germanic adjective ended up appearing in many languages, like French (frais<\/em>), Portuguese (fresco<\/em>) or Italian (fresco<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Guarecer<\/strong>: From the Spanish verb guarir<\/em>, meaning \u201cto shelter or to take shelter\u201d, it came from Germanic warjan<\/em>, the root for the German verb wehren<\/em>, \u201cto defend\u201d.<\/p>\n

Guerra<\/strong>: From Germanic werra<\/em>, it signifies \u201cwar, conflict\u201d. The Old German w\u00ebrra<\/em> became the German noun \u201cWirren\u201d (confusion, disturbances, turmoil), as well as the adjective wirr<\/em> (confused, muddled, tangled).<\/p>\n

H\u00e1mster<\/strong>: from German Hamster<\/em>, which in turn came from Old German hamustro. This word appears with the same form in English, Dutch, French, Portuguese and many other languages.<\/p>\n

Kindergarten<\/em><\/strong>: from German Kindergarten<\/em>\u2014a composite noun literally meaning \u201cchildren garden\u201d\u2014, it is used to refer to a nursery school and is a synonym of jard\u00edn de infancia<\/em>. In Spanish, it may be also written as k\u00ednder<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Leitmotiv<\/em><\/strong>: from modern German Leit-Motiv<\/em>, it is a way of calling the main subject or recurring theme in a literary work or film. In Spanish, it must be written in italics. In English, it is written as \u201cleitmotif\u201d.<\/p>\n

Rico<\/strong>: From the Germanic noun r\u012bk<\/em> for \u201cking\u201d and through the Gothic reiks<\/em>, this Spanish adjective is used in the same varied ways as its English counterpart rich<\/em>. As with the old frisk<\/em>, r\u012bk<\/em> and reiks<\/em> left their mark in many other modern European languages: rico<\/em> in Portuguese, riche<\/em> in French, ricco<\/em> in Italian, and so on.<\/p>\n

Yelmo<\/strong>: From Germanic h\u0115lm<\/em>, it means \u201chelmet, as part of an armour\u201d. It is a cognate of modern German Helm<\/em> and Old English helm<\/em>.<\/p>\n

As for the Spanish words of German origin belonging to specialized fields, one may find cobalto<\/em> (German Kobalt<\/em>, English cobalt<\/em>), cuarzo<\/em> (German Quarz<\/em>, English quartz<\/em>), feldespato<\/em> (German Feldspat<\/em>, English feldspar<\/em>) and n\u00edquel<\/em> (German Nickel<\/em>, English nickel<\/em>); alongside di\u00e9sel<\/em> (syn. gas\u00f3leo<\/em>, English diesel<\/em>, named after German engineer Rudolf Diesel) and zepel\u00edn<\/em> (syn. globo dirigible<\/em>, English zeppelin<\/em>, from the surname of German general Ferdinand von Zeppelin).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Let’s continue with the Spanish words of Germanic origin: Falda: From Old Hogh German faldan, which meant \u201cto fold\u201d, it became the noun for \u201cskirt\u201d in today\u2019s Spanish. Fresco: From Germanic frisk, meaning \u201cfresh\u201d. One may notice the Germanic adjective ended up appearing in many languages, like French (frais), Portuguese (fresco) or Italian (fresco). Guarecer…<\/p>\n

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