• @pmk
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    242 months ago

    German and swedish is quite similar, I’m guessing this is a regular undersökningshandske?

      • Zement
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        2 months ago

        *Staring my first Student-Job in a Lab… Reading the Name for the first time and the voices in my head go: “[Geschmiedet durch die Hände der Zwerge in den Tiefen der Berge.] Forged by the hands of dwarfes in the depths of the Mountains …”

    • @SmegmaPatrol@lemmy.world
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      42 months ago

      But the „Schuh“ at the end of the word means „shoe“, so glove is hand-shoe (Handschuh) in German. Wonder if it is the same in Swedish.

      • @pmk
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        52 months ago

        Yes, it’s the same, all the way back to old norse at least.

        • @Ooops@feddit.org
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          62 months ago

          Germanic languages love descriptive compound words… only English stopped doing it and now prefers to pillage other languages for vocabulary.