German words first recorded in the 17th century

It is borrowed from French troupe (“group of people; body of soldiers”), borrowed at the beginning of the 17th century as a military word, separately from Trupp, which comes from the same French…

It is the infinitive of the verb unternehmen used as a noun, which Paul compares with French entreprise. The verb goes back to Middle High German undernemen and Old High German untarneman, formed…

It is a shortening of the Early New High German noun Nachrichtung, or a parallel formation from German nach + richten. Like Latin īnstrūctiō, it first meant “instruction”, that by which one is to…

It is borrowed from Italian modello (“pattern, model”), borrowed around 1600 as a term of the visual arts. The Italian word goes back to Vulgar Latin *modellus, which stands for Latin modulus…

It is borrowed from French chef (“head, chief, leader”), borrowed at the beginning of the 17th century. The French word goes back through Old French chief and Vulgar Latin *capus to Latin caput…

It is borrowed from Italian concerto, borrowed at the beginning of the 17th century. Pfeifer notes that German took the Italian word with a Latinised pronunciation. The Italian noun belongs to…

It is formed from German Zentrum + -al after the model of Latin centrālis (“situated in the middle”). Pfeifer and the Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch also compare the older French central. The noun was…

It is formed from German bisher + -ig. The adverb is Middle High German bizher (“until now”), from biz (“until”) and her (“hither”), the words that are now bis and her; it was often written…

It is from Dutch waarschijnlijk (“probable”), a loan translation taken into High German around the middle of the 17th century. The Grimms' dictionary finds the formation first in Dutch, in Kilian's…

It is borrowed from French complet, borrowed in the 17th century. The French adjective goes back to Latin complētus (“full, complete”), the participle used as an adjective of compleō (“to fill up”)…

It is borrowed from French roman (“novel”), from Old French romanz, romant (“a story in the vernacular”), borrowed in the first half of the 17th century. The Old French word first named a text…

It is formed from German entwickeln + -ung, first recorded in the 17th century. Wiktionary suggests a calque of French développement. The verb entwickeln was formed with ent- from wickeln “to wind…

It is a noun formed from German beitragen (“to contribute”), on the stem of the verb, itself from Middle High German bītragen, formed from German bei- + tragen. Its counterpart is Dutch bijdrage.

It is from German zu + Folge, formed in chancery language after the model of zuliebe and zugunsten; the Grimms' dictionary rejects the earlier view that it was contracted from a purpose clause. The…

It is borrowed from French organisation, borrowed in the second half of the 17th century. The Grimms' dictionary traces the French noun further to New Latin organisatio. It belongs to organiser (“to…

It is from German Regel (“rule”) + -mäßig (“in accordance with”), formed in the second half of the 17th century. The noun is Middle High German regel, Old High German regula, first taken over as a…

It is borrowed from Late Latin positīvus (“set, given”) (adverb positīvē), probably under the influence of French positif; Kluge derives it directly from the French word, itself from Latin. The…

It is borrowed from French engagement (“pledging, commitment”), a noun of engager (“to bind, pledge”), properly “to take into one's pay”, which was formed from gage (“pledge, wages”) with the prefix…

It is borrowed from French politique (“science of government”), borrowed in the middle of the 17th century. The French word goes back to Late Latin polīticē (“art of government”), from Ancient Greek…

It is borrowed from Latin medium (“the middle; a means”), the neuter of the adjective medius (“in the middle, middle”) used as a noun, borrowed in the 17th century. The Latin adjective is cognate…

It is from German Stand + Ort, first recorded in the 17th century. Stand (Middle High German stant (“standing, place of standing”)) is the action noun of the present stem seen in Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽…

It is from German gleich + Zeit + -ig. Schottel listed it in 1663 among the adjectives compounded with its first element, but it did not become current in speech and writing before the middle of the…

It is borrowed from French rang (“row, order”), borrowed in the 17th century, during the Thirty Years' War. It comes in turn from Old French renc (“row, line of battle”), which first meant the…

It is from German verhalten + -nis, with umlaut; only the oldest record has the form without umlaut. In the sense “relation” it was proposed in 1667 by Johann Christoph Sturm as a German word for…

It is a chancery formation from Middle Low German behören (“to belong to, be due”), which corresponds to High German behœren (“to belong, be fitting”) and to the modern gehören. The verb is formed…

It is from German ehemals + -ig, an adjective from the adverb “formerly”; the Grimms' revised dictionary derives it from the variant ehemal. The adverb is Middle High German ēmāles, a phrase of the…

It is borrowed from Latin prōiectum (“something thrown forward”), the neuter past participle of prōiciō (“to throw forward, stretch out”), from prō- and iaciō (“to throw”). Pfeifer calls it a…

It is formed from German übrig + -ens, the adverb of the adjective übrig “remaining, left over”, probably on the model of erstens. The adjective is Middle High German überic, überec, beside Middle…

It is formed from German ge- + fühlen in the second half of the 17th century, probably on the model of the older Gehör and Gesicht. The Grimms point out that the word is Central German, Low German…

It is borrowed from French saison (“season, time of year; suitable time”), borrowed in the later 17th century. The French word probably comes from Latin satiō (“sowing, planting”), from serō (“to…

It is borrowed from French social, from Latin sociālis (“of society, sociable”), from socius (“sharing; companion”). Duden, Wahrig and the Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch connect socius with sequor (“to…

It is borrowed from French moderne, borrowed for good at the beginning of the 18th century, from Late Latin modernus (“current, present, new”), from modo (“only, just; just now”), an adverb that was…

It is borrowed from Latin contāctus (“touch, contact”), the noun of Latin contingō (“to touch”), a compound of Latin con- (“with, together”) and Latin tangō (“to touch”). Pfeifer calls it a learned…

It is from German Wissenschaft + -lich. The noun is late Middle High German wiʒʒenschaft (“knowledge”) (14th century), a collective formation from the infinitive of wissen, which at first simply…

It is borrowed from French critique, borrowed at the end of the 17th century, from Ancient Greek κριτική (kritikḗ, “the art of judging”), from κριτικός (kritikós, “able to judge, deciding”), from…

It is a fusion from German so + genannt, the past participle of nennen “to name”. Paul thinks the phrase arose under the influence of the older French soi-disant, English so-called and probably…

It is from German bevölkern (“to populate”) + -ung. The verb (17th century) is formed with the prefix be- from Volk “people”. The noun is Old High German folc, Proto-Germanic *fulką (“troop of…

It is the past participle of verscheiden, used as an adjective. In the sense “dead” it is the participle of the verb in its surviving sense “to die”, literally “to go away”; in the sense “different”…

Paul explains it as a back-formation from the verb zusammenhängen, older “zusammenhangen”, recorded by Kaspar Stieler in 1691. Wiktionary analyses it as from German zusammen- + Hang.

It is borrowed from Latin cultūra (“tilling, cultivation; care, training of the mind”), from colō (“to till, tend, cultivate”), borrowed in the 17th century. Paul also names French culture as a…

It is borrowed from French fraction (“fraction, part; grouping”), from Latin frāctiō (“breaking”), from frangō (“to break”), past participle frāctus. Kluge dates it to the 17th century; the DFWB…

It is formed from German Beispiel + -weise, with the linking -s-. It grew out of 15th- and 16th-century phrases in which the preposition in governed the genitive of the noun followed by Weise, “in…

It is a fusion of außer with dem, the dative of the article and pronoun. Campe, in 1807, still preferred writing it separately. The preposition is Middle High German ūzer, Old High German ūzar…

It was formed in the 18th century from German be- + Ton, from the noun in the sense “stress, accent”. That noun is Middle High German dōn or tōn (“melody, song, sound”), from Latin tonus (“tension…

It is a learned borrowing, borrowed from Latin Iānuārius (“of Janus”), short for mēnsis Iānuārius (“the month of Janus”). The Latin name is usually connected with that of the old Italic god Iānus…

It is the phrase jeden Falls “in every case” run together into one word, from German jeder (“every”) + Fall (“case”), with the genitive ending of the noun used adverbially. It belongs to a group of…

It is borrowed from French mètre, from Ancient Greek μέτρον (métron, “measure”). The French word was recommended in 1790 as the name of the basic unit of length in the system of measures set up by…

It is formed from mindest “least” with the adverbial genitive ending -ens, remodelling the older phrase zum Mindesten. Its base is Middle High German minnest, Old High German minnist, from…

It is borrowed from Latin nōrmālis (“made with the carpenter's square, (Late Latin) according to the rule”), probably also influenced by French normal. The Latin adjective comes from nōrma…

It is borrowed from French organiser, with the German verb suffix -ieren, borrowed in the 18th century. The French verb is a derivative of organe (“tool, organ”), formed on the model of Medieval…

It is borrowed from French plan (“ground plan, design”), borrowed at the beginning of the 18th century and long pronounced in the French way. French has had the word since 1553. The origin of the…

It is formed from German Plan (“plan, ground plan”) + -en, in the 18th century according to Pfeifer and in the 19th according to the Duden. The noun was borrowed in the 18th century from French plan…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin politicus (“statesman”), a noun use of the Latin adjective polīticus (“of the state, political”), from Ancient Greek πολιτικός (polītikós, “of citizens, of the…

It is borrowed from Latin programma (“public notice, proclamation”), partly through French programme, from Ancient Greek πρόγραμμα (prógramma, “public notice, agenda”). The Greek noun belongs to…

It is borrowed from Medieval Latin publicum (“the common people; the public”), borrowed at the beginning of the 18th century. It is the neuter of Latin pūblicus (“belonging to the people or the…

It is borrowed from Late Latin reagō (“to drive back”), which meant “to act against” in the Middle Ages, and was taken into the language of chemistry in the 18th century. The Latin verb is formed…

It is borrowed from New Latin technicus (“technical, expert”), from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós, “artistic, skilful, expert”), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “craft, art, skill, science”). The Latin form…

It is borrowed from Middle Low German ummesat (“exchange”), a noun formed from ummesetten (“to exchange”), the Middle Low German form of umsetzen. Duden's etymological dictionary says that the verb…

It is formed from German veranstalten + -ung. The verb, “to organise, stage”, is not found in the older language: it was formed in the first half of the 18th century and is first recorded by Frisch…

It is a noun formed from the verb verkehren, first in the sense “trade, exchange of goods”. The verb is inherited from Middle High German verkēren (“to turn round, transform, distort”), formed from…