This book traces the development of the vocabulary of the German language, exemplified by 101 words, ending with Gabenzaun, from the days of Covid. The words featured in the volume are typical examples of morphological and semantic change: borrowing from other languages (Kaiser), including pseudo-loans (Blamage) loan translation (floodlight to Flutlicht), creation of new words through compounding (Schwiegermutter), derivation with affixes (kleingläubig), and clipping and blending (Denglisch). The book is unique in concept and scope and offers English-speaking readers an engaging way of tracing the history of the German vocabulary.
List of Abbreviations - Introduction - 1 deutsch The language
of the people - 2 Samstag The last day of the week - 3 Maut
Road pricing - 4 Dult The peoples pleasure - 5 Jänner
January brings the snow - 6 Heurige Prost! - 7 Kren For
added spice - 8 fesch An English attraction - 9 Heimweh Home,
sweet home - 10 Putsch An explosive Swiss German word - 11
Plattdeutsch The case of the unshifted consonants - 12 schnacken
Its good to talk - 13 dufte Beyond compare - 14 Gaul An
American tale - 15 Kaiser The Boss - 16 Demut Humble beginnings -
17 Mauer To separate or protect? - 18 barmherzig The quality of the
Good Samaritan - 19 Herr Titled people - 20 Mönch Life in
seclusion - 21 Geist The spirit gives life - 22 werden A
versatile verb - 23 Küche The centre of everything - 24 Gewissen
Faith and a good conscience - 25 Wurst The core of German cuisine -
26 Minne All you need is love! - 27 Preis The French connection
- 28 Haupt The chief - 29 wegen A shift of word class - 30
desto An antique - 31 Einfluss Influence from above - 32 Grenze
The importance of boundaries - 33 Dietrich The name that opens every
door - 34 drucken The importance of the printed word - 35 Lippe O
Lord, Open my lips! - 36 kleingläubig Blue-sky thinking - 37 Konto
The Italian connection - 38 Lärm A storm in a teacup - 39 See The
difference grammatical genders can make! - 40 Schwiegermutter A
successful compound - 41 Hängematte Rebranded - 42 dass Spelling
and syntactic structure - 43 Tageleuchter An elusive word - 44
siezen Respect! - 45 Bett, Beet Two words for the price of one - 46
Tante Oh, my giddy aunt! - 47 während Providing syntactic variety -
48 obgleich A good merger - 49 Kartoffel The king of vegetables -
50 sentimental Made in Yorkshire - 51 Schriftsprache Developing
standards - 52 Gedankenfreiheit A penny for your thoughts! - 53
Weltliteratur To the ends of the earth - 54 Pfiffikus Academic
freedom - 55 Blamage Appearances can be deceptive -56 Ismus A
productive suffix becomes a word - 57 Umlaut More than just two dots -
58 Frucht Bringing to fruition - 59 Märchen A fantasy world - 60
turnen Exercising the lexical muscles - 61 Tschüss! So long, fare
thee well, pip-pip, cheerio! - 62
Donaudampfschifffsfahrtsgesellschaftskapitân How far can compounding go? -
63 Fahrkarte A ticket to ride - 64 Unserdeutsch Voices from the
past - 65 Bühnenaussprache Please speak clearly! - 66 Weckglas A
jar with a name - 67 U-Boot Deep down under the sea - 68 röntgen
Seeing through things - 69 Duden The man who became a book - 70 zwo
Making a clear distinction - 71 Ampel A revived and relit word - 72
Autobahn The fast lane - 73 Gestapo Three words for brutality - 74
Pimpf Gone with the wind! - 75 mies A hidden origin - 76
Fernsehen Lexical creativity - 77 D-Mark A powerful currency - 78
Computer The importance of English - 79 Flutlicht Shine the
spotlight on - 80 Heimatvertriebene A heavy heritage - 81 Supermarkt
Morphological creativity - 82 Gastarbeiter The foundation of the
economic miracle - 83 pingelig Eau de Cologne - 84 Volkskammer
Parliamentary democracy East German style - 85 Kernkraft Controversial
power - 86 Umwelt The world around us - 87 Bio-Welle A healthy
development - 88 entsorgen A cover-up? - 89 Internationalismus
The world is linguistic global village - 90 mailen Written
communication in a digital world - 91 Handy A handy invention - 92
Trab(b)i An iconic car - 93 Besserwessi West is best? - 94 Euro
A word is born - 95 Denglisch Good or bad? - 96 geil A semantic
turn around - 97 twittern An ornithological word in the digital world -
98 Kiezdeutsch Amost anything goes - 99 krass What goes around,
comes around - 100 Bundeskanzlerin First Lady Chancellor of Germany - 101
Gabenzaun The German language and the Covid pandemic - Linguistic Glossary
- Bibliography
Index
Charles V. J. Russ is a retired Lecturer/Reader in German Linguistics at the University of York, where he taught from 1972 to 2007. He holds a PhD from the University of Southampton and is the author of Historical German Phonology and Morphology (1978) and The Sounds of German (2010).
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