石けん, アルバイト, メルヘン – sekken, arubaito, meruhen
Written by admin on Oct 16th, 2009 | Filed under: Words
Connecting the new words to the similar in another language is always fun. Many Japanese words were originated from English, but not only. Here are few Japanese words that have been derived from German language:
- 石鹸(P); 石けん -- せっけん-- (n) soap;
German - die Seife
- アルバイト part-time job, side job;
German: die Arbeit. Funny enough, this precarious type of work in German is called "der Job" and there is a verb - jobben, jobbte, gejobbt
- メルヘン fairy-tale
German: das Märchen
- メルヘンチック; メルヘンティック (adj-na) - having a fairy-tale atmosphere
Here is a combination of German - das Märchen and shortening from romantic --tic.
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