German words first recorded in the 16th century

It is formed from da “then” and Mal “point in time”, with -s, the genitive ending turned into an adverbial suffix. The pattern is the Middle High German genitive des māles (“at that time; this…

It is formed from German fahren (“to travel”) + Zeug (“gear, equipment”). Kluge holds that it was taken over at the end of the 17th century from the Low German word fārtüg (compare Dutch vaartuig…

It is a noun formed from the verb vortragen, which could be narrowed to the sense “put forward in words”. The verb is inherited from Middle High German vürtragen, inherited from Old High German…

It is formed from German ausbilden + -ung. The verb is a particle verb of bilden, recorded late as Middle High German ūzbilden “to show a likeness, shape into an image”, a word of the mystics…

It is formed from German Staat + -lich. The noun Staat was taken in the 14th century from Latin status (“standing, position, condition”), a noun of stō (“to stand”). At first it meant rank and…

It is from German angeben (“to state, indicate”), the noun of action of the verb, formed with the vowel of Gabe like Abgabe and Aufgabe, and recorded from the beginning of the 16th century. The…

It is borrowed from Latin quālitās (“nature, property”), a derivative of quālis (“of what kind”). Its use was partly influenced by French qualité, and Wiktionary takes it partly from the French…

It is a back-formation from the verb erfolgen, recorded from the early 16th century. Kluge dates the noun to the 17th century and thinks French succéder and succès may have influenced it. The verb…

It is formed from German erheben + -lich in the 16th century, from the verb in the sense “to carry through, establish”, so that it first meant “feasible, attainable”. In the language of lawyers and…

It is borrowed from Italian soldato (“soldier”), literally “one taken into pay”, the past participle used as a noun of soldare (“to take into pay”), which belongs to soldo (“coin, pay”) and goes…

It is borrowed from Ecclesiastical Latin ūniō (“unity, union”), borrowed in the first half of the 16th century, according to the Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch from an inflected form of the Latin noun…

It is formed from German ab- + lehnen in the early 16th century. It first meant “to take away something that leans against something”, though it is never recorded in a purely concrete sense; the…

It is borrowed from Latin idea (“idea, archetype”), used in German in its Latin form from the early 16th century; the present form arose in the 17th century under the influence of French idée. The…

It is a compound of zu and gleich. The Grimms' dictionary takes it as a short form of a phrase with a noun, such as Middle High German ze glîcher wîs (“in the same way”), modelled on phrases like ze…

It is from German an- + kündigen. The same formation is Middle Low German ankündigen and Dutch aankondigen. The base verb (13th century) first meant “to make known, proclaim”, and is formed from the…

It is from German Angesicht + -s, the genitive of the noun used as a preposition. Kluge notes that it keeps what was probably the noun's original meaning, “looking, sight”, since Angesicht, Middle…

It is borrowed from Latin historicus (“historical”), borrowed in the early 16th century, from Ancient Greek ἱστορικός (historikós, “historical; a historian”), derived from ἱστορία (historía…

It is from German unterstützen + -ung. Parallel nouns are Dutch onderstutting, Danish understøtning and Swedish understöd. The verb continues Middle High German understützen, Old High German…

It is formed from German eben + so. The first part is the adverb use of the adjective eben, Middle High German eben, Old High German eban, Proto-Germanic *ebnaz (“level, even”) (compare Gothic 𐌹𐌱𐌽𐍃…

It is from German stimmen + -ung. Kluge explains that two derivatives of Stimme “voice” fell together in the verb: one meaning “to call, to raise one's voice”, and one from Old High German gistimmi…

It is borrowed from French politique, from Latin polīticus (“of the state”), from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (polītikós, “of the citizens, of the state”), from πολίτης (polī́tēs, “citizen”), from πόλις…

It is borrowed from Italian numero (“number”), a word of the merchants' language borrowed in the 16th century, from Latin numerus (“number, figure”). It became feminine after Zahl. Kluge relates the…

It is borrowed from Latin theātrum (“place for shows, theatre; the audience”), taken over in the early 16th century and at first inflected as Latin; the Germanized form appears in the middle of the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin discussiō (“examination”), in Classical Latin “a shaking”, the action noun of discutiō (“to strike apart, shatter, (Late Latin) to examine, discuss”). That verb is…

It is borrowed from Latin scēna, scaena (“stage, scene of action”), borrowed probably under the influence of French scène. The Latin noun comes from Ancient Greek σκηνή (skēnḗ), which first meant a…

It is borrowed from Latin positiō (“a placing; position”), borrowed in the 16th century, the noun of action of pōnō (“to put, place, lay”), past participle positus. Duden and the DFWB think that…

It is a derivative from German Stand + -ig, first recorded in the 16th century. It first meant “keeping its stand, staying in the same place”, and then, transferred to time, “continual”. Old and…

It is from German Gestalt + -en, formed in the 16th century. The noun Gestalt, Middle High German gestalt (“appearance, nature”), arose from the old past participle of stellen, Old High German…

It is from German einrichten + -ung, a noun of action from the verb einrichten, which is ein- and richten. The verb is Middle High German înrichten, first recorded in 1338, and corresponds to Middle…

It is borrowed from Latin patiēns (“suffering, enduring”), the present participle of patior (“to suffer, endure, put up with”), used as a noun. The Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch derives it from the…

It is a univerbation of so and wohl “well”, from the phrase meaning “just as well as”, which was written separately until the 19th century. Adelung still thought the separate spelling the correct one.

It is from German mit + Arbeiter, formed by Luther as a loan translation of the New Testament word Ancient Greek συνεργός (sunergós, “fellow worker”). Paul places it in Luther's version of 1…

It is borrowed from Latin systēma, from Ancient Greek σύστημα (sústēma, “a whole made up of parts”), from Ancient Greek συνίστημι (sunístēmi, “to put together”), a compound of Ancient Greek σύν…

It is the noun Trotz (“defiance”), used as a preposition since the 16th and 17th centuries. It grew out of the noun with a following dative in a parenthetic formula, as in Weckherlin's “trutz meinem…

It is formed from German bereit (“ready”) + -s: Middle High German used the adjective bereite (“already; quickly, skilfully”) as an adverb. From the 16th century it took the adverbial ending -s of…

In its modern senses it is borrowed from French production, taken over in the 18th century. The word had already been used in German in the second half of the 16th century, after Latin prōductiō (“a…

It is borrowed from Latin classis (“division; class of pupils; army, fleet”), borrowed in the 16th century. Kluge takes the Latin word to have meant first “a calling together”, then the crowd called…

It is from German mehr + -heit, formed after Dutch meerderheid (“majority”). Pfeifer says Kramer coined it in 1719 from the Dutch word, and the Duden and Duden's large dictionary add French majorité…

It is formed from German Europa + -isch. When the name of the continent still had older German forms with Latin endings, the adjective was europisch. Adelung notes that the name comes from Greek…

It is from German so + gar, at first written separately and meaning “so completely, so much”. Its present use, singling out something unexpected, developed in the early 18th century. The first part…

It is borrowed from Latin āctīvus (“active, practical”), formed from agō (“to drive, do, act”), past participle āctus. Until the 18th century it was mostly used as an adverb, after āctīvē; DFWB…

It is borrowed from Latin collēga (“colleague in office”), borrowed in the 16th century. The Latin word is made of con- (“with”) and a word for law or delegation, in a way Kluge calls…

It is from German be- + enden. The Grimms' revised dictionary first records it in 1564, and the Duden etymological dictionary describes it as an 18th-century word of the chanceries, like the…

It is a verb formed with the prefix be- from the adjective Middle High German scheftec (“active, busy”), also scheftic, which belongs to schaffen in the sense “to work”. The Duden dictionaries name…

It is a univerbation of an older adverbial genitive phrase meaning “in an equal case”, made of the adjective eben and the noun Fall. The Duden dates the joined form to the 16th century, where it…

It is borrowed from Italian finale (“end, finale”), from Latin fīnālis (“at the end, concerning the boundaries”), a derivative of fīnis (“end, boundary”). Pfeifer notes that the Italian word is only…

It is borrowed from Latin īnstitūtum (“arrangement, institution”), the noun use of the past participle of īnstituō (“to set up, establish, arrange”), from in- and statuō (“to set up, erect”). It is…

It is the past participle of betreffen, used as an adjective. That verb is formed from be- and treffen. The simple verb is Middle High German treffen, Old High German treffan, Old Saxon drepan, from…

It is borrowed from French groupe, first a term of the visual arts, which comes from Italian gruppo (“cluster, group”), older also groppo (“knot, lump”). German made the word feminine, after Truppe…

In its modern sense it is borrowed from French carrière (“racecourse; course of life, career”), borrowed in the 18th century. Kluge derives the French word from Italian carriera (“road”), Pfeifer…

It is a noun formed from the verb verbinden. Paul's first record, from 1577, is in a work on architecture by Vredeman, where it means the joining of stones into masonry. Wiktionary suggests that it…

It is borrowed from French hôtel, ostel, from Late Latin hospitāle (“guest room”). The French noun is related to hôte (“guest, host”), from Latin hospes (“guest; host”), and German Hospital has the…

It is borrowed from Latin candidātus (“candidate for office”), borrowed in the 16th century. The Latin noun is the adjective “dressed in white” used as a noun, from candidus (“shining white…

It is borrowed from Latin discutiō (“to strike apart; to examine, discuss”), borrowed in the 16th century. Duden dates the verb to the early 17th century and thinks it probably came through French…

It is a compound from German fest (“firm”) + stellen (“to put, place”), recorded since the 17th century; the revised Grimm dictionary has it from 1584 and notes that it was often written separately…

It is borrowed from Latin mūsēum (“place for learned pursuits; library, academy”), from Ancient Greek μουσεῖον (mouseîon, “seat or shrine of the Muses”), a noun formed beside the adjective μούσειος…

It is borrowed from French situation (“position, site”), borrowed in the late 16th century, at first sometimes with Latin or French inflection. Kluge and Duden derive the French noun from situer…

It is borrowed from French intéresser (“to interest”) according to the Duden dictionary and the German-language Wiktionary, while Pfeifer, Duden's etymological dictionary and the Early New High…

It is borrowed from French dame (“lady”), borrowed at the end of the 16th century, beside Italian dama and Spanish dama. The Old French dame comes from Medieval Latin domna, the syncopated form of…

It is formed from German ent- + wickeln at the end of the 16th century. Kluge holds that it was formed under the influence of Latin explicō (“to unfold, explain”) and French évoluer, which is why it…