| word |
meaning in English |
meaning in German |
| GIFT |
a present | poison |
| DANK |
chilly wet | gratefulness, thanks |
| STARK |
bare, grim, harsh | strong |
| KIND |
nice, generous | a child |
| HUT |
small building | a hat |
| ROCK |
a stone; to move back and forth | a skirt |
| STOCK |
a share in a company | a cane |
| MITTEN |
a glove | in the middle |
| SAGE |
a wise person |
say [first person, present tense]; also a saga |
| LINKS |
plural of link, connections | left [opposite to right] |
| TOLL |
a charge for road usage |
fantastic |
| BOOT |
a tall shoe | boat |
| LUNGE |
a sudden thrust | lung |
| GUT |
intestine or stomach | good |
| MIST |
light fog | dung, manure |
| NOT |
in no way | an emergency |
| LAST |
at the end | freight, burden |
| HANDY |
easy to handle | cellular phone [new word] |
| MOST |
superlative of many | apple cider [Southern Germany, Austria] |
| RIND |
a tough outer covering, of cheese for example |
an individual of cattle |
| LOT |
a considerable quantity |
a plumb |
| TALK |
speak |
talc |
| BAD |
evil, harmful |
bath |
| RAT |
a rodent |
advice |
| TRUNK |
the nose of an elefant |
a drink (together with some people) |
| LIED |
past tense of "to lie" |
a song |
| HALL |
a large room |
a short echo |
| FAST |
quickly |
almost |
| BRIEF |
short |
a letter |
| SAME |
identical, e.g., at the
same time |
a seed |
| BALD |
lacking of natural covering, e.g., hair
|
soon |
| SOLD |
past tense of "to sell"
|
a soldier's salary
|
| LAG
|
to fall behind
|
past tense of "legen" (intransitive verb, i.e., lie)
|
| GLUT
|
an oversupply
|
embers
|
| LACK
|
to be deficient
|
lacquer
|
| WAR
|
an armed conflict
|
past tense of "sein" (to be)
|
| TOT
|
a small child
|
dead (adverb)
|
| TOTE
|
to carry by hand as in tote-bag
|
dead (adjective)
|
| GRAB
|
to seize
|
a grave
|
| LIST
|
a sequence
|
craftiness
|
| JAMMER
|
one that jams
|
misery
|
| KIPPER
|
a fish cured in salt
|
a dump truck
|
| STERN
|
firm and unyielding
|
a star
|
| DICK
|
short form of Richard; colloquial for penis
|
stout, corpulent
|
| SEE
|
to behold with your eyes
|
a lake
|
| ART
|
The production of beautiful forms of sound or shape
|
a species
|
| ANGEL
|
a spiritual being attendant upon God
|
a fishing rod
|
| BAT
|
A flying mammal; a wooden club
|
past tense of "bitten" (to ask for something)
|
| HAT
|
a head covering
|
third person present tense for "haben" (to have)
|
| MUTTER
|
to speak indistinctly in a low voice
|
mother
|
| LEG
|
a lower extremity in a human
|
imperative for "legen" (to lay)
|
| LOG
|
the fallen trunk of a tree
|
past tense of "lügen" (to lie)
|
| TEE
|
a t-shaped peg to place a golf ball on
|
tea
|
| MADE
|
past tense of "to make"
|
a maggot
|
| SUCH
|
As in "such as"
|
imperative for "suchen" (to search)
|
| LURCH
|
to roll or pitch suddenly
|
a salamander
|
| MARK
|
a sign or visible impression
|
marrow (like "Knochenmark" bone-marrow)
|
| QUALM
|
a sensation of doubt, uneasiness
("to have no qualms about it")
|
thick smoke
|
| MAUL
|
to bruise or tear ("mauled by a wild animal")
|
the mouth of an animal ("das Maul halten" to shut up)
|
| WELT
|
a ridge or bump raised on the skin by a lash or blow
|
the world
|
If you know another word whose meaning is entirely different
and preferably of a different root
in English and German but whose spelling is the same ("false cognate"),
please send me
email.
Thanks to Hermann Kremer for his many new entries,
and to BettinaNM, PNulton
and others (whose email I lost) for the help!
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