• SmegmaPatrol@lemmy.world
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    24 days ago

    But the „Schuh“ at the end of the word means „shoe“, so glove is hand-shoe (Handschuh) in German. Wonder if it is the same in Swedish.

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        23 days ago

        Germanic languages love descriptive compound words… only English stopped doing it and now prefers to pillage other languages for vocabulary.