Is there something like a dictionary that only lists German words that originate in Germany? Excludes words that have been Germanized and adopted? But where these words are also explained?
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Yes, there is the “Duden – origin dictionary, which deals specifically with the German words that originate from the German language space. The origin and development of the words are explained.
This applies not only to German words.
Well, otherwise there’s no dictionary in the way.
Etymological dictionaries explain the origin of their keywords. Of this there is a whole bunch, the best for German is the Kluge-Seebold.
There are, of course, also dictionaries which represent a last state of a language, for example Mittelhochdeutsch (≅1400) or althochdeutsch (≅900). The problem is that you would not recognize even those words that still live in German today, because the language always changes and especially the vowels in German and his precursors were very unstable.
Theoretically, someone could also write a dictionary of German in which all foreign words are omitted. But this raises many questions, because what time horizon do you want to do? Some foreign words are longer in German (incl. his precursor languages) than there are written traditions, others have only slipped into the language yesterday. Or how do you want to judge low German foreign words in high German? Or those who are German tribes, but have first moved back to a Romanesque language and from there back to German?
If the criteria are tightly applied, for example, the following words should be omitted: vinegar, oil, sugar, wine, mustard, window, place, gate, furniture, fun, boots, fashion, gruppe, card, hammock, board, jacket, fit, fade, snorkel, lemon, suitcase…
You see, there’s less left than expected.
The German language is much older than the fairly young state “Germany” (or most other nation states in Europe).
However, there are dictionaries with particularly detailed information on origin (etymology). Both printed and in various online dictionaries such as DWDS.
It’ll be hard. Because then you would probably have to look for a comparatively thin book, as many words came from somewhere else. It’s more than you think. Or did you know that mattress, cap, window, lady, family, dom, giraffe, number, sugar… would not be found in it?
No.
This is also a strange “idee” that pretends that there has always been some “German language”. In fact, however, our current standard high German is an art language like Esperanto.
The Brothers Grimm saw it differently, but no matter, I support the current thing
Just like English, French, Russian, Arabic, Chinese,… all art languages that once invented a pole 100 years ago and have no long historical history with important literature.
The Brothers Grimm were very restrictive in recording foreign words
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