Migrating German Words
With the words like shopping,couch,gourmet,spaghetti and many others,you can tell right away that these words have migrated into the German language. But,did you know that there are lot of German words migrated into other languages?
Here’s few of the examples of “Ausgewanderte Wörter” or “Emigrated German words” in other languages.
Kindergarten — UK,USA
Kaffeeklatsching(Kaffeeklatsch)–UK;Canada
Kufar (Koffer)–Bulgary
Kaffeepausi,Besservisseri–Finnland
Sitzfleisch–Russia
Katzenjammer–Poland
Unheimisch(unheimlich)–Holland
Habengut–Denmark
Cetli(Zettel)–Hungary
Schadenfreude–UK,USA,Australia
Les Neinsager–Switzerland
La Mannschaft–France