"a result, ""New Yorkers embraced Moore's child-centered version of Christmas as if they had been doing it all their lives."" In ""An American Anthology, 1787–1900"", editor Edmund Clarence Stedman reprinted the Moore version of the poem, including the German spelling of ""Donder and Blitzen"" that he adopted, rather than the earlier Dutch version from 1823 ""Dunder and Blixem."" Both phrases translate as ""Thunder and Lightning"" in English, though the German word for thunder is ""Donner"" and the words in modern Dutch would be ""Donder en Bliksem."" Modern printings frequently incorporate alterations that reflect changing linguistic and cultural sensibilities. For example,"
"is a combination of ""donder"", meaning ""thunder"", and ""bus"", meaning ""Pipe"" (Middle Dutch: ""busse"", box, tube, from Late Latin, ""buxis"", box, from Ancient Greek ""pyxίs"" (πυξίς), box: esp. from boxwood). The transition from ""donder"" to ""blunder"" is thought by some to be deliberate; the term ""blunder"" was originally used in a transitive sense, synonymous with ""to confuse"", and this is thought to describe the stunningly loud report of the large bore, short barreled blunderbuss. The term ""dragon"" is taken from the fact that early versions were decorated with a carving in the form of a mythic dragon's head around the"
"Netherlands, South Africa, Australia, and occasionally in Germany. It is an English or Dutch version of Bernard, from the Germanic name Bernhard, composed of the elements ber(n) ‘bear’ + hard ‘brave’, ‘hardy’, ‘strong’. The name is a held by Hebrew scholars to be a symbolic representation (or Kinnui) for the Israelite tribe of Issachar. One of the sons of Jacob, Issachar, was compared to a donkey, so one would expect to find the donkey as a Kinnui of Issachar. However, the donkey, not considered to be very auspicious, was replaced by a bear; Dov in Hebrew, Bär or Baer in"
"meaning the Austrian dialect word for ""to say"". ""sun"" (spoken: soon) is Austrian dialect for ""Sonne"", which in English again, means ""sun"". ""dog"" in Austrian dialect means ""day"", and the German word for ""dog"" is ""Hund"". The song on the album contains the line ""da dog der is a hund"" - ""the day is a dog"". This has no meaning in English, but in Austria the saying that ""something ""is a Hund"""" relates to something being difficult, or not working out as expected. An example for a word play that can be translated into English, also characterizing the general message"
"moje kommd en annern droo”"" (roughly, “Hello, dead man, tomorrow it’ll be another’s turn”; this is dialectal, not standard High German). Nowadays children enjoy the sweets that are thrown out into the street from all the houses as a straw doll is borne ahead of them out of the town and then burnt. ""Doude Moo"" is always held on the third Sunday before Easter. The event is known in official circles as ""Todemo"". Stadtprozelten Stadtprozelten is a town and municipality in the Miltenberg district in the ""Regierungsbezirk"" of Lower Franconia (""Unterfranken"") in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the ""Verwaltungsgemeinschaft"""
"modern Germanic languages save English and Scots retain the more general sense: for example, German ""Tier"" and Norwegian ""dyr"" mean ""animal"". For many types of deer in modern English usage, the male is a ""buck"" and the female a ""doe"", but the terms vary with dialect, and according to the size of the species. The male red deer is a ""stag"", while for other large species the male is a ""bull"", the female a ""cow"", as in cattle. In older usage, the male of any species is a ""hart"", especially if over five years old, and the female is a"
"version of the poem, including the German spelling of ""Donder and Blitzen,"" rather than the original 1823 version using the Dutch spelling, ""Dunder and Blixem"". Both phrases translate as ""Thunder and Lightning"" in English, though German for ""thunder"" is now spelled ""Donner"", and the Dutch words would now be spelled ""Donder"" and ""Bliksem"". Rudolph's story was originally written in verse by Robert L. May for the Montgomery Ward chain of department stores in 1939, and published as a book to be given to children in the store at Christmas time. According to this story, Rudolph's glowing red nose made him"
"significantly louder than it would be if heard at the same distance in a non-inversion condition. The ""d"" in Modern English ""thunder"" (from earlier Old English ""þunor"") is epenthetic, and is now found as well in Modern Dutch ""donder"" (cp Middle Dutch ""donre"", and Old Norse ""þorr"", Old Frisian ""þuner"", Old High German ""donar"" descended from Proto-Germanic *""þunraz""). In Latin the term was ""tonare"" ""to thunder"". The name of the Germanic god Thor comes from the Old Norse word for thunder. The shared Proto-Indo-European root is *""tón-r̥"" or ""*"", also found Gaulish ""Taranis"" and Hittite ""Tarhunt"". A flash of lightning,"
"is German, spelled as a one-word compound as was the standard before the spelling reform of 1996 and is still the standard in Switzerland; however, the correct article to use in this case is the neuter form ""das"", not the masculine ""der"". This is true for both the actual food (""das Schnitzel"") and the restaurant itself (""das Restaurant"", ""das Lokal""). In English, ""wiener"" (short for ""wienerwurst""), from ""Wiener Würstchen"", is a colloquial name for a hot dog. The actual ""Wiener Schnitzel"", however, means ""Viennese breaded veal cutlet"", a dish that the restaurant chain does not sell. The chain changed its"
"southern Germanic form of the god's name. According to a near-contemporary account, the Christian missionary Saint Boniface felled an oak tree dedicated to ""Jove"" in the 8th century, the Donar's Oak in the region of Hesse, Germany. Around the second half of the 8th century, Old English mentions of a figure named () are recorded, a figure who likely refers to an Old English version of the god. In relation, is sometimes used in Old English texts to gloss ""Jupiter"", the god may be referenced in the poem ""Solomon and Saturn"", where the thunder strikes the devil with a ""fiery"
"Morgen varies a bit in different regions, but is believed to be derived from the area a man would plough in a morning (Morgen), and is about one third of a hectare (), which is similar to an acre. A Doppelzentner is , and thus similar to a coomb. Similarly, the German word for an area of arable land is an ""Acker"". It is easy to infer that the imperial acre is derived from the same Germanic word base. Thus the English and the German yield units are thus closely related, coombs per acre being similar to Doppelzentner pro Morgen."
"transition period between the lower and upper Rotliegend strata. The name Donnersberg is thought to refer to Donar, the Germanic god of thunder, a theory supported by the fact that the Romans dubbed the Donnersberg ""Mons Jovis"" after their god of thunder, Jupiter. According to other theories, the name of the mountain was derived from the Celtic ""dunum"" (meaning ""mountain"") or from the name of a Celtic deity, Taranis. During the Celtic La Tène period, around 150 BC, an important settlement (""oppidum"") was built on the Donnersberg, covering some 240 hectares. Part of the wall (""Keltenwall"") surrounding this settlement has"
"Thursday Thursday is the day of the week between Wednesday and Friday. According to the ISO 8601 international standard, it is the fourth day of the week. ""See Names of the days of the week for more on naming conventions. "" The name is derived from Old English ""Þūnresdæg"" and Middle English ""Thuresday"" (with loss of -n-, first in northern dialects, from influence of Old Norse ""Þorsdagr"") meaning ""Thor's Day"". It was named after the Norse god of Thunder, Thor. ""Thunor, Donar"" (German, ""Donnerstag"") and ""Thor"" are derived from the name of the Germanic god of thunder, ""Thunraz"", equivalent to"
"English noun ""Monday"" derived sometime before 1200 from ""monedæi"", which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) ""mōnandæg"" and ""mōndæg"" (literally meaning ""moon's day""), which has cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian ""mōnadeig"", Middle Low German and Middle Dutch ""mānendag, mānendach"" (modern Dutch ""Maandag""), Old High German ""mānetag"" (modern German ""Montag""), and Old Norse ""mánadagr"" (Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk ""måndag"", Icelandic ""mánudagur"". Danish and Norwegian bokmål ""mandag""). The Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin ""lunae dies"" (""day of the moon""). Japanese and Korean share the same ancient Chinese words '月曜日' (Hiragana:げつようび, translit. ""getsuyо̄bi"", Hangul:월요일) for Monday"
"Dutch ""zon"", Old High German ""sunna"", modern German ""Sonne"", Old Norse ""sunna"", and Gothic ""sunnō"". All Germanic terms for the Sun stem from Proto-Germanic *""sunnōn"". The Latin name for the Sun, ""Sol"", is used at times as another name for the Sun, but is not commonly used in everyday English. ""Sol"" is also used by planetary astronomers to refer to the duration of a solar day on another planet, such as Mars. The related word ""solar"" is the usual adjectival term used for the Sun, in terms such as solar day, solar eclipse, and Solar System. A mean Earth solar"
"two go outside to investigate to discover Thor waiting for them and preparing Mjölnir in retribution for his sons' deaths. Thor In Germanic mythology, Thor (; from ) is a hammer-wielding god associated with thunder, lightning, storms, oak trees, strength, the protection of mankind, and also hallowing and fertility. Besides Old Norse ""Þórr"", extensions of the god occur in Old English as , and in Old High German as (runic ). All forms of the deity stem from a Common Germanic (meaning 'thunder'). Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman"
"""xoves"" and Romanian ""joi"". This is also reflected in the p-Celtic Welsh ""dydd Iau"". The astrological and astronomical sign of the planet Jupiter (♃) is sometimes used to represent Thursday. Since the Roman god Jupiter was identified with Thunor (Norse Thor in northern Europe), most Germanic languages name the day after this god: ""Torsdag"" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish, ""Hósdagur""/""Tórsdagur"" in Faroese, ""Donnerstag"" in German or ""Donderdag"" in Dutch. Finnish and Northern Sami, both non-Germanic (Uralic) languages, uses the borrowing ""Torstai"" and ""Duorastat"". In the extinct Polabian Slavic language, it was ""perundan"", Perun being the Slavic equivalent of Thor. There"
"English days of the week were inherited from gods of the old Germanic Norse culture — Wednesday is ""Wōden""’s-day (""Wōden"" or ""Wettin"" eqv. Mercury), Thursday is ""Thor""’s-day (Thor eqv. Jupiter), Friday is ""Frige""-day (Frig eqv. Venus). It can be correlated that the Norse gods were attributed to each Roman planet and its god, probably due to Roman influence rather than coincidentally by the naming of the planets. In alchemy, each classical planet (Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn) was associated with one of the seven metals known to the classical world (silver, mercury/quicksilver, copper, gold, iron, tin and"
"Germanic term is a Germanic interpretation of Latin ""dies solis"" (""day of the sun""), which is a translation of the Ancient Greek ""heméra helíou"". The p-Celtic Welsh language also translates the Latin ""day of the sun"" as ""dydd Sul"". In most Indian languages, the word for Sunday is ""Ravivāra"" or ""Adityavāra"" or its derived forms — ""vāra"" meaning day, ""Aditya"" and ""Ravi"" both being a style (manner of address) for Surya i.e. the Sun and Suryadeva the chief solar deity and one of the Adityas. Ravivāra is first day cited in Jyotisha, which provides logical reason for giving the name"
"also the official name for Saturday in East Germany. In West Frisian there are also two words for Saturday. In Wood Frisian it is "" saterdei"" and in Clay Frisian it is ""sneon"", derived from ""snjoen"", a combination of Old Frisian ""sunne"", meaning ""sun"" and ""joen"", meaning eve. In the Westphalian dialects of Low Saxon, in East Frisian Low Saxon and in the Saterland Frisian language, Saturday is called ""Satertag"", also akin to Dutch ""Zaterdag"", which has the same linguistic roots as the English word ""Saturday"". It was formerly thought that the English name referred to a deity named ""Sætere"""
"inspired numerous works of art and references to Thor appear in modern popular culture. Like other Germanic deities, veneration of Thor is revived in the modern period in Heathenry. Old Norse (), Old English , Old High German , Old Saxon , and Old Frisian are cognates within the Germanic language branch, descending from the Proto-Germanic masculine noun 'thunder'. The name of the god is the origin of the weekday name ""Thursday"". By employing a practice known as during the Roman Empire period, the Germanic peoples adopted the Roman weekly calendar, and replaced the names of Roman gods with their"
"spelled ""Döner Kebab"", which can also be spelled ""Doener Kebab"" if the ""ö"" character is not available; the sandwich is often called ""ein Döner"". Particularly in British English, a döner kebab sandwich may be referred to simply as ""a kebab"". A Canadian variation is ""donair"". In Greek, it was originally called ""döner"" () but later came to be known as ""gyros"", from (""turn""), a calque of the Turkish name. The Arabic name (""shāwarmā"") derives from another Turkish word, ', also meaning ""turning"". Persians refer to it as ""kebab torki"". There are many variations of ""döner"" in Turkey: In Azerbaijan, döner"
"peoples seem to have adopted the week as a division of time from the Romans, but they changed the Roman names into those of corresponding Teutonic deities. Hence, the ""dies Solis"" became Sunday (German, ""Sonntag""). The English noun ""Sunday"" derived sometime before 1250 from ""sunedai"", which itself developed from Old English (before 700) ""Sunnandæg"" (literally meaning ""sun's day""), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian ""sunnandei"", Old Saxon ""sunnundag"", Middle Dutch ""sonnendach"" (modern Dutch ""zondag""), Old High German ""sunnun tag"" (modern German ""Sonntag""), and Old Norse ""sunnudagr"" (Danish and Norwegian ""søndag"", Icelandic ""sunnudagur"" and Swedish ""söndag""). The"
"became shortened in common usage to ""thaler"" or ""taler"". The German name ""Joachimsthal"" literally means ""Joachim's valley"" or ""Joachim's dale"". This name found its way into other languages: Czech and Slovenian ""tolar"", Hungarian tallér, Danish and Norwegian ""(rigs) daler"", Swedish ""(riks) daler"", Icelandic ""dalur"", Dutch "" (rijks) daalder or daler"", Ethiopian ""ታላሪ (""talari"")"", Italian ""tallero"", Greek τάλληρον, τάλιρο, ""tàlleron"", ""tàliro"", Polish ""talar"", Persian ""dare"", as well as – via Dutch – into English as ""dollar"". A later Dutch coin also depicting a lion was called the ""leeuwendaler or leeuwendaalder"", literally 'lion daler'. The Dutch Republic produced these coins to accommodate"
"diver"", which is an alliteration in German), or ""Mutterficker"" (""motherfucker""). A whole range of these expressions aim at supposedly weak or conformist behaviour, such as ""Ampel-bei-Rot-Stehenbleiber"" (""traffic-lights-on-red-stopper""), ""Warmduscher"" (""warm-showerer""), ""Unterhosen-Wechsler"" (""underpants changer""), or ""Schattenparker"" (""in the shadow parker""). Especially among children there are several fixed terms of this type, like ""Spielverderber"" (""game spoiler""). Note: The suffix ""-er"" is also used to form instrument nouns, e.g. ""Salzstreuer"" and ""Bohrer"" also denote instruments. The normal gerund noun is generally the same word as the infinitive. The gerund does not have a plural (normally – but if so, the form would be unchanged),"
"(""dessen"", ""deren"") and in the dative plural (""denen""). Etymologically this is related to English ""that"". The second, which is more literary and used for emphasis, is the relative use of ""welcher"", ""welche"", ""welches"", comparable with English ""which"". As in most Germanic languages, including Old English, both of these inflect according to gender, case and number. They get their gender and number from the noun they modify, but the case from their function in their own clause. The relative pronoun ""dem"" is neuter singular to agree with ""Haus"", but dative because it follows a preposition in its own clause. On the"
"Adler Adler is a surname of German origin meaning ""eagle"", and has a frequency in the United Kingdom of less than 0.004%, and of 0.008% in the United States. In Christian iconography, the eagle is the symbol of John the Evangelist, and as such a stylized eagle was commonly used as a house sign/totem in German speaking areas. From the tenement the term easily moved to its inhabitants, particularly to those having only one name. This phenomenon can be easily seen in German and Austrian censuses from the 16th and 17th centuries. The term might have been assigned also as"
"Turkish , with the Turkish letter ""ö"" usually anglicized as ""o"", though ""döner kebab"" is an alternate spelling in English. The word """" is used, which comes to English from the (""kabāb""), partly through Urdu, Persian and Turkish; it may refer to a number of different kebab dishes made with roasted or grilled meat. While ""kebab"" has been used in English since the late 17th century, ""doner/döner kebab"" is known only from the mid-20th or later. The Turkish word ' comes from ""dönmek"" (""to turn"" or ""to rotate""), so the Turkish name literally means ""rotating roast"". In German, it is"
"god of war and leader of the Wild Hunt. The Wild Hunt was retold in Dutch with Wodan leading under different guises: ""Gait with his dogs; Derk with his dogs; Derk with his boar; the glowing horse; Henske with his dogs.""). Donar is Dutch for Thor the god of thunder. In Dutch the days of the week are named for Germanic gods, a custom derived from parallel Roman practice. Note that the following days were named through Roman influence, because the Romans found them to be (roughly) equivalent to their Roman deities: However other ancient deities are Druidic, Celtic and"
"""dalur""), which may perhaps have influenced its survival in northern England. The Germanic origin is assumed to be *""dala-"". ""Dal-"" in various combinations is common in placenames in Norway. Modern English valley and French vallee are presumably not related to dale. Currency unit dollar originates from Bohemia where joachimsthaler, simplified as thaler or daler, were manufactured. The word is perhaps related to Welsh ""dol"" (meadow, pasture, valley), Russian ""dol"" (valley, reverse side) and Serbo-Croation ""dolina"" (basin, ""doliner"" is used geological terminology about depressions in karst areas. There is semantic equivalency to many words and phrases, suggesting a common Indo-European affinity."
"such wide wheels are commonly known in English as rollers. It does also refer to the verb ""to roll"" which has the same meaning in German - the particle ""ab-"" in German ""abroll container"" designates downward/pushback operations so that the German ""Abrollcontainer"" is sometimes translated to English as ""roll-off container"". The DIN standard uses the German term ""Abrollbehälter"" where the generic Germanic ""behälter"" has replaced the Romanic ""container"" - the latter is more associated with transport containers in the German language so that the ACTS designation has picked up ""Abrollcontainer"" instead of the synonymous ""Abrollbehälter"". With ""Abrollcontainer"" associated to transport"
"Saturday Saturday is the day of the week between Friday and Sunday. The Romans named Saturday ""Sāturni diēs"" (""Saturn's Day"") no later than the 2nd century for the planet Saturn, which controlled the first hour of that day, according to Vettius Valens. The day's name was introduced into West Germanic languages and is recorded in the Low German languages such as Middle Low German ""sater(s)dach"", Middle Dutch ""saterdag"" (Modern Dutch ""zaterdag"") and Old English ""Sætern(es)dæġ"" and ""Sæterdæġ"". The day was also referred to as ""Sæternes dæġe"" in an Old English translation of Bede's ""Ecclesiastical History of the English People"". In"
"(modern: ) is German for ""valley"", and a ""thaler"" is a person or a thing ""from the valley"". The Czech spelling was ; many varieties of the term are used in different languages. In the 1902 spelling reform, the German spelling was changed from ""Thal"" and ""Thaler"" to ""Tal"" and ""Taler"", which however did not affect the English spelling of ""thaler"". The later Dutch also carried the picture of a lion, which gave them the name (""lion thaler""). From an abbreviation of ""leeuwendaalder"" come the names of three present-day Balkan currencies, the Romanian and Moldovan Leu and the Bulgarian Lev."