German words first recorded in the 19th century

It is borrowed from English dollar, the American English name of the currency. Pfeifer dates the borrowing to the 18th century, Duden to the 19th. The English word goes back to Low German dāler, the…

It is a derivative of Teil with the prefix be- and the suffix -ig, formed in the 19th century in Upper German in place of the older verb beteilen “to give a share”. A similar verb is Middle Low…

It is borrowed from French chance (“luck, prospect, possibility”), borrowed at the beginning of the 19th century according to Pfeifer, Paul and the Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch. Kluge and the Duden…

It is formed from German er- + möglich + -en, a verb meaning “to make possible” made from the adjective. Wiktionary's German edition describes it as a conversion of the adjective with the prefix…

It is from German Finanz + -iell, a formation on the French model rather than a borrowing, though Pfeifer sets French financiel beside it. The noun Finanzen “funds, state finances”, recorded from…

It is borrowed from English partner, borrowed at the beginning of the 19th century. The English word, in use since the 14th century, is a reshaping after part of Middle English parcener (“partaker…

It is borrowed from French traditionnel, borrowed in the early 19th century; the French adjective, of the 18th century, is formed from tradition. In German it can also be seen as Tradition with the…

It is a compound from German Erfolg + reich, “rich in successes”. The first part is a back-formation of the 17th century from erfolgen in the old sense “to attain, obtain”, perhaps influenced by…

It is borrowed from English sport (“amusement, pastime, outdoor recreation”), borrowed in the first half of the 19th century. The English word is a shortening of Middle English disport (“diversion…

It is borrowed from French expert (“expert; experienced”), borrowed in the early 19th century. This goes back to Latin expertus (“experienced, tried, proven”), the past participle of experior (“to…

It is borrowed from English trainer, the agent noun of the verb train (“to bring up, school, break in”), which also gave trainieren. The English verb is from Old French traïner (“to drag, trail”)…

It is borrowed from English international, a word coined in 1789 by the jurist Jeremy Bentham in his “Principles of Morals and Legislation”, in the phrase international law. Bentham meant it to…

It is shortened from Eisenbahnhof, a compound from German Eisenbahn (“railway”) + Hof (“yard, court”), in which the second part has the sense of a large group of working buildings. Around 1840 the…

It is a compound from German Kind (“child”) + Garten (“garden”), with the plural of the first noun as its first part. The educator Friedrich Fröbel coined it in 1840 for his school for small…

It is a recent formation from German ver- + öffentlich (“public”) + -en. Paul calls it a German replacement for publizieren. The adjective is Middle High German offenlich, Old High German offanlīh…

It is a compound from German Feuer (“fire”) + Wehr (“defence”), formed on the model of Landwehr, in which the second part names a body of men organised for defence. The word came up with the…

It is a shortening from German Fotografie, which is from English photography, a learned coinage of the astronomer J. F. W. Herschel in 1839 from Ancient Greek φῶς (phôs, “light”) (genitive φωτός…

It is borrowed from English team, which continues Old English tēam (“offspring, family; team of draught animals”). The English word is related to Zaum, so that the German noun is a doublet of the…

It is borrowed from English start (“to set off, begin”), borrowed in the second half of the 19th century, first in horse racing; the noun Start was taken from English at about the same time. The…

It is a compound from German fern (“far”) + sehen (“to see”), formed at the end of the 19th century. Duden counts its first element among the many technical words whose first element renders the…

It is borrowed from English interview, adopted about 1870 from the language of American journalists. The English noun is an anglicised form of French entrevue (“meeting”), a noun derived from…

It is borrowed from English start, borrowed in the second half of the 19th century in the language of horse racing. The English noun is a nominalization of the verb “to start”, Middle English…

It is from German Sport + -lich, formed in the second half of the 19th century. The noun Sport was borrowed in the early 19th century from English sport, short for older disport (“pastime…

It is borrowed from English film (“thin skin, membrane; coating”), from Old English filmen (“membrane, thin skin”), a word of the Germanic family of Fell. The Deutsches Fremdwörterbuch traces the…

It is the adjective jugendlich “youthful” used as a noun, and it keeps the adjective's endings. The adjective goes back to Middle High German jugentlich and Old High German jugundlīh (9th century)…

It is borrowed from English concern (“business, firm; interest”), a noun from the English verb meaning “to relate to, affect”. The verb comes through French concerner (“to concern”) from Medieval…