German words first recorded in the 16th century

It is from German so + fort, run together into one word in northern Germany in the 16th century. In Middle Low German vōrt (“forward”) also meant “soon, at once”, and the phrase strengthened with so…

It is from German Wirtschaft + -lich. The noun is Middle High German wirtschaft, Old High German wirtscaft (“hospitality, entertaining of guests, feast”), formed with the suffix -schaft from Wirt…

It is borrowed from Italian lista (“strip, border; list”), borrowed at the end of the 16th century. The Italian word, like Medieval Latin lista (“edge, border, strip”), came from the Germanic word…

It is a compound from German Welt (“world”) + Krieg (“war”). The first part, Middle High German werlt, Old High German weralt, is an old West Germanic compound of a word for “man” (as in Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂…

It is borrowed from Middle Low German bedrīf (“activity, pursuit”), which reached High German about 1600 and was adapted there to Trieb. Like the verb betreiben, from bedrīven, it came into the…

It is formed from German damal + -ig, from the adverb meaning “at that time”, which goes back to late Middle High German. That adverb, recorded from the end of the 15th century beside damalen…

It is formed from German Fuß + Ball as a loan translation of English football, which was also used in German as a foreign word. Kluge and Pfeifer date the calque to the 17th century, Duden to the…

It is a compound from German Jahr (“year”) + hundert (“hundred”), formed in the 17th century as a loan translation from Latin saeculum (“age, century”). Before it, Rompler had tried a native coinage…

It is a fusion of je and Weile, so originally “each while”, that is, “each time”. The parallel form jeweilen has the dative plural of the noun instead. The first part, “ever”, is Middle High German…

It is borrowed from French critiquer (“to criticize”), recorded from the 17th century, but with the German verb suffix -isieren in place of a French ending. The Grimms' dictionary notes that the…

It is borrowed from Middle Low German landen (“to come ashore”), a Low German verb formed from Land, which entered the standard language in the 17th century and displaced the Upper German länden…

It is borrowed from French partie (“part; party; game”), taken over in the 17th century, and so lacks the diphthong of Partei, the same French word borrowed in Middle High German. The French noun is…

It is from German anstatt (“instead of”), shortened in the 17th century. The longer word arose in the 15th century from phrases with the noun Statt “place” and a genitive, as in an sîne stat (“in…

It is formed from German verantworten + -lich in the 17th century. The verb is Middle High German verantwürten, first meaning “to answer” and especially “to defend oneself as the accused in court”…

It is formed from the verb vergleichen, which is Middle High German vergelīchen (“to make equal, settle”), with ver- added to gelīchen, a verb from the adjective gleich. An older noun for the same…

It is formed from German vorstellen (“to put in front; to present; to imagine”) + -ung, as a noun of action matching the senses of the verb. That verb combines vor with stellen, Middle High German…

It is formed from German Welt + weit, and is recorded from the 17th century. The Grimms' dictionary notes the same formation in Danish verdensvid and English world-wide. The first part is Old High…