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List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling ( Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ( fish = Fisch, mouse = Maus), or both ( Arm, Ring); these are excluded from this list.
As languages, English and German descend from the common ancestor language West Germanic and further back to Proto-Germanic; because of this, some English words are essentially identical to their German lexical counterparts, either in spelling ( Hand, Sand, Finger) or pronunciation ( fish = Fisch, mouse = Maus), or both ( Arm, Ring); these are excluded from this list.