• Ephera@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen

    “Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).

    And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.

    It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃

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      5 months ago

      It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it.

      It’s what Germans do, you can’t stop them, they’ll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn’t work as well in Englisch but w/e