Nature - Germanic languages compared 

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There is no "Växt" in German. I think you mean "Gewächs".

Most of the non-Germanic words in English actually come from French and not directly from Latin. English is a Germanic language with a French flavour. Dutch and German have quite a French influence too :) And beautifully, also vice-versa, French also has a Germanic flavour :)

The words for Forest in Spanish and Italian are Germanic loanwords

In German, the word “See” is used for a lake the center and in the south. The word "Meer" is used for the ocean. But in the north of Germany it is reversed. "See" is used for the ocean. Sometimes "Meer" is used for a lake. This has to do with the fact that the Low German dialect is spoken in the north. However, High German mostly follows the dialects in central or south Germany.

In Danish we also have the word ''Fjell'' although it is spelled ''Fjeld'' it means the same and it's used by older Generations and in certain groups of dialects such as the dialects of Jutland which I happen to be a speaker of the Eastern juttersh dialect. In danish we also have the word ''Ødemark'' meaning the same as it does in the other Nordic languages. and when it comes to the word hill in Danish you can use both ''Bakke'' and ''høj'', although in Danish ''høj'' is often combined with the word ''grav'' meaning grave together they form the word ''gravhøj'' meaning burial mound

Great video but not the best color choice for the Norwegian words for colorblind people

Oog is an archaic version of island in Dutch, although I think we got that from Frisian. It's related to the North Germanic words for island. Vliet is another word for river in Dutch, although very few people actually use it. It's still common as a name for moving bodies of water (Haringvliet for example). While gewas also means plant, nowadays it usually refers to crops in an agricultural sense. These videos are very interesting keep ip up!

Well fjell/fjäll also exists in norwegian/swedish. The alternative for fjall in icelandic is fell, as in the big mountain Snæfell north of the big Vatnajökull glacier (where reindeer hang out). In icelandic eyja for island can be shortened to "ey" and many islands end with that (and that viking word influenced the islands in the british isles that end with -ey or -ay). The word "eyland" also exists, very much like the dutch word. The word fljót is used more than elfur for river in icelandic. The word mar exists for sea but is not much used. The word hóll is used for a hill just as much as hæð.

In Dutch, Vallei/Valley is sometimes also used for the flood plane of a river. Maas vallei etc.

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Congrats on becoming a father! Btw I would like to point out that German Berg also has an English cognate: barrow.

1:23 So Hemel Hempstead -located northwest of London- would mean 'Sky [of] Hemp City'? (the suffix sted, stede and stead is an archaic way of city (other examples are Stansted), and is related to de: stadt, nl: stad). And with strand, I think some parts of Scotland use strand in English as that is the translation of it in Scots (a language/dialect closely related to English). We also have the Strand in London which is located close to the River Thames. And its so cool if the games Stardewdale and Deercrossing were called that way (Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing)

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Half of the Belgians speak Dutch as well. And Belgium has mountains and valleys.

In Swedish it is mainly å or älv for river. Flod is for big rivers abroad.

Wow, I swear you should attempt a Proto Indo European video on such words... Perhaps of all words in the videos you have made up until now.

Amazing content! I would love to see videos of words being pronounced in the Sinosphere languages (Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese,Korean,Vietnamese)

The word "Bakke" (= "Hill" in Danish) reminds me of "Bukit" with the same meaning in Malaysian. That is of course only a coincidence.

In case of Wüste , Ödnis, Öde, Einöde would be also possible in german. Lake - german cognate is ,die Lache' (puddle?). Pflanze - Gewächs would also be possible.

in Danish "hill" can also be 'høj' or, if it is long, 'ås'.

2:17 Ödemark (Swe) and the Norwegian Odemark probably mean the same as the German _Ödland_ , which is just another word for _Wüste_

Interesting, and you go a long way, but longer would be more interesting. Fluss for river, seems far away, but flood comes damned close to fluss, feelting, vloeiend, etc. I can almost read a Danish newspaper as Dutch guy, even though the verbalizing is a different world. Take stoer (tough in Dutch) is stor is Danmark meaning big. One can feel they once must have meant the same. So many words started from one language, but become different things in different peoples, yet feel still related, as you saw, and could deepen more.

In fact Dutch has not only "vallei" en "dal" for a valley, but also a "del" specifically for a valley in the dunes.

Both fjeld and elv are danish words as well. Fjeld is only used for scandinavian and Greenlandic mountains, whereas bjerg is used for other mountains as well as in a few place names, that are better deskribed as hills. In the same way elv is used for scandinavian rivers and flod foreign rivers. Within Denmark neither word is used. The word å is used for the largest watercourses within Denmark. Indsø is specifically a lake without an outlet to the sea. It is not a commonly used word and I had to look it up.

The word stone has a cognate word in Persian but it means land instead which is the stan which you find in names as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tatarstan

It would have been interesting to not only consider standard German, but also the Alemannic and Bavarian variations of German. They're usually overlooked, because they have no formalised writing system, but from a linguistic point of view they're interesting.

Y'all complaining need to for real chill. Glad you could make such a better video than this creator. Maybe instead of nitpicking, go create your own video then. Yes there are other Germanic languages, but that would have resulted in a crowded video, the creator probably wants to keep it simple to look at. Love the comparisons!

The word "sky" also exists in Swedish as a synonym to "Himmel". It is pronounced differently though, more like "Schy"

it would be cool if u included: Luxemborgish, afrikaans, yiddish, älvdalska and frisian

Includinc Icelandic but not Faroese.... Always gets left out🇫🇴🇫🇴🇫🇴

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Great video, thank you! Greetings from Ukraine❤

In Scots the word for sky is 'lift', so "The lift is blaw" means 'the sky is blue'.

In serbian "stena" means "rock". "Kamen" is "stone".

Just a slight correction; Sjö is never the swedish word for "sea". We only use "hav" no matter the size of it. Also, Wolke (ger) and Wolk (dut) stem from proto-germanic wulkaną

Bier or beer. Most important word. From Germany ❤😂

You have 'Växt' as a German word. I think you mean 'Wachstum' (?)

Why did you use the UK flag for ENGLISH and not include Scots???? the Scots word for river is burn and we have a unique word for most of these things. like strath for valley, loch instead of lake, stain for stone and munro for mountain

I am nitpicking but it might have been more accurate to show the English flag for English, rather than the UK flag. Then a separation between English and Scots too, maybe using a Scottish flag

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Iceberg= "Ice mountain"???

english is the french of the germanic languages

compare slavic languages!

English is more Latin than Germanic.

Time to kick england out of the germanic club I see 😂

english language is not fully germanic but a mixture of germanic latin

A southern European fascinated by watching this. Vivat Europa, a continent so diverse and rich in culture and history. I have to be honest by saying that English is simply the best language. I m learning Dutch and despite having a lot of admiration in many things about this country, the language sounds so awful to me. I hope the Dutch dont get offended. You cannot like everything and everyone.

Corrections: Mountain does not come from mons, there is no such word "mountain" in Latin, mountain comes from French, which English is mixed with due to the French-Norman invasion in 1066 as we know. Dutch rivier and English river also do not come from Latin ripa, the sound changes would not even make sense. Both those words come from French. Classifying English as an actual Germanic language instead of a creole is pushing it, as it is shown here. "But these French words come from Latin." Yes, not an argument because we are not talking about French. Otherwise, why not say these French words in English come from proto-indo-european instead? It simply does not make sense. There are many more actual Latin words in German than in English, because the actual Latin speakers neighboured the High Germans but not the Low Germans.