Words
Useful Links
Leo - English German Dictionary.
Oxford English Dictionary
Thesaurus
Rhyming Dictionary. Useful for all sorts of poets.
Collection of German words used in English
- Abseiling
- Angst
- Ansatz
- Bauplan
- Boesewicht
- Doppelgaenger
- Fest
- Gemisch
- Gestalt
- Gesundheit
- Glockenspiel
- Goetterdaemmerung
- Halt
- Hinterland
- Iceberg
- kaputt
- Katzenjammer
- Kindergarden (Kindergarden)
- Kitsch
- Leitmotif
- Lust
- Panzer
- Poltergeist
- Rindersterben
- Schadenfreude
- Schlepping
- Schlieren-Optics
- spritz
- Umlaut
- Waldsterben
- Waltz
- Zeitgeist
And if you haven't got enough go to OED Advanced Search. Search for: `G.' in "etymologies" and `Ger.' in "etymologies" and have fun. Click here to see results.
Unusual or false-positive Cases
These words are not in the Oxford Eng. Dict.
- Bauplan
- Boesewicht
- Gemisch
- Kummerbund (false-positive)
- Lebensraum
- Meerkat (false-positive)
- Schlieren-Optics
- Sonnenblumen
Poems
An old story of life. N.J.Nethercote, 2002.
Bio-Informatics. C.Vogel, 2002.
Ode to the Shuttle Cock. Y.-C. Wang, N.J. Nethercote, C. Vogel, 2002.
Samstag Morgen. C. Vogel (G), N.J. Nethercote (E), 2002.
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Christine Vogel, cvogel {at} mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
March 2003