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minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up24·3 months agoGerman and swedish is quite similar, I’m guessing this is a regular undersökningshandske?
minus-squareLocalhorst86linkfedilinkarrow-up30·3 months agoNot just a regular undersökningshandske, but a nitril undersökningshandske
minus-squareZement@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up7·edit-23 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 …”
minus-squareSmegmaPatrol@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5arrow-down1·3 months agoBut 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.
minus-squarepmk@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up5·3 months agoYes, it’s the same, all the way back to old norse at least.
minus-squareOoopslinkfedilinkarrow-up6·3 months agoGermanic languages love descriptive compound words… only English stopped doing it and now prefers to pillage other languages for vocabulary.
German and swedish is quite similar, I’m guessing this is a regular undersökningshandske?
Not just a regular undersökningshandske, but a nitril undersökningshandske
*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 …”
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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.
Yes, it’s the same, all the way back to old norse at least.
Germanic languages love descriptive compound words… only English stopped doing it and now prefers to pillage other languages for vocabulary.