It's funny how "delicatessen" in German is "Feinkost" and "double entendre" in French is "double sens". (Though sure, both world be understood in French/German.) Does anyone else know any other "loan words" which were not just loaned, but stolen?
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Further, the German word delicatessen *is* the original but with etymological origin of French, which apparently was not used in French before the German word. And thus the English delicatessen *is* a loan word from German delicatessen. Leave it to a
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I'm currently wandering around a French airport trying to follow all of this... :D
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It takes a few minutes. Funny that "loan word" (calque) is a misnomer. When someone lends to you and you borrow, you are supposed to give back the same and possibly more. French gave English "calque" and French received "bulldozer" so... maybe it's deuce :)
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