• Zement
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        2 months ago

        *Staring my first Student-Job in a Lab… Reading the Name for the first time and the voices in my head go: “[Geschmiedet durch die Hände der Zwerge in den Tiefen der Berge.] Forged by the hands of dwarfes in the depths of the Mountains …”

    • @SmegmaPatrol
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      42 months 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.

        • @[email protected]
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          62 months ago

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