I love how they jam words together to make new words. As I understand it, German is easier to learn because the bigger words are made of smaller words glued together instead of creating new words with no clues. I got this from a book on the history of the English language, which I will again promote because it was so fun to read:

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme and Other Oddities of the English Language

ceiphas@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

Plane is Fly Thing (Flugzeug)

spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y (1 reply)

You know, I know just enough German to have wondered how -zeug fit into things and now I know and I'm pretty happy about drive and fly things 😂

yetAnotherUser@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 1y

Are you also happy about play things (toys), fire things (lighters), hit things (drums), work things (tools) and green things (greenery)?

vonxylofon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What's so special about it? https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-railway-handcar-railroad-mokra-gora-serbia-old-railway-handcar-186122041.jpg

spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 1y

Okay well yes when you point out the obvious and valid English word handcar I see how this is a dumb comment haha

subarctictundra@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

See I'd much prefer one woth pedals, like a bike.

vonxylofon@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

I don't think it would be very practical. It's so heavy you have to use your entire body weight to get it going.

siipale@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 1y

I didn't realize I've been saying "hand shoes" all my life. Finnish word hanskat obviously comes from Swedish handskar. Maybe I should say käsineet instead so it would have nothing to do with shoes.

M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Har undrat vad "skar" betyder i ordet. Hand är ju självklart men inte hittat något om vad skar menar eller brukade mena.

Johandea@feddit.nu · 7 pts · 1y

"av ord motsvarande HAND och SKO"

https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=handske&pz=1

samus12345@lemm.ee · 45 pts · 1y

If it weren't for all that Latin and French influence, we'd still be calling them handshoes, too.

ArtieShaw@fedia.io · 26 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Once you can wrap your head around Handshuhe, Fingerhut becomes obvious. "Ah, so this is how this is going to go."

JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Following that logic then how about Penis-Regenmantel?

rustyricotta@lemmy.ml · 25 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Japanese: 手袋 = Tebukuro = Hand bag/sack

_stranger_@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

mittens should be handbags

handbags should be, uh, just bags?

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1y

Handbags are just bags in Japanese, but a different bag word: 鞄 (kaban)

fushuan@lemm.ee · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Eskularruak.

I prefer to call my gloves handfurs thankyouverymuch

Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 1y

To handle furries better, smart, I just use work gloves tho.

ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 1y

I mean, the German has a point

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y

But why not Handsocken?

Rooskie91@discuss.online · 8 pts · 1y

It's almost like they have different root languages

xwolpertinger@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

Glove: From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”)

Enjoy your palmsies

logicbomb@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

In Japanese, gloves is "tebukuro", 手袋, where 手 ("te") means hand, and 袋 ("fukuro") means sack.

expatriado@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y

4 Germans downvoted with their handtoes

7uWqKj@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y

Handschuhe literally translates into "hand shoes" so it’s the only one that makes any sense.

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

I also learned today that a German word for accordion is Handharmonika, and I love it so much.

allrian@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

It seems to be Ziehharmonika, acc to Google Translate.

Zombiepirate@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

I think there are multiple words (like Akkordion), but it may be a brand name?

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Pull harmonica

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

What not being conquered by the Romans does to a language.

Welsh is another good example

tanisnikana@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y

Well, in English, “glove” is made up of two parts: g + love. The G is for your homies, and the love part is holding hands with your homies, and that’s what wearing a glove feels like.

Don’t fact-check me. >.>

Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Then a wild перчатки (perchatki) appeared.

MunkyNutts@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y

Can appreciate the french mime not speaking it.