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Wanderwörter

Syllables: Wan·der·wört·erUK/ˈwɒndəˌwətə/US/ˈwɑndɚˌwɚtɚ/

Wanderwörter is the plural of Wanderwort.

Meaning of Wanderwort

Noun

Wanderwort (plural Wanderwörter or Wanderworte or Wanderworts)

  1. A loanword that has spread to many different languages, often through trade or the adoption of foreign cultural practices.
    • Mrs. [Agnes Smith] Lewis has correctly observed that many corrections in the old papyri (things which no doubt the διορωτής corrected) were misinterpreted by the ancients (hence what [Adalbert] Merx calls "Wanderwörte").1914, H[erman] C[harles] Hoskier, “B in St. Luke’s Gospel”, in Codex B and Its Allies: A Study and an Indictment, part I, London: Bernard Quaritch, →OCLC, page 25
    Synonyms:
    wanderword

Origin of Wanderwörter

Borrowed from German Wanderwörter.

Questions about Wanderwörter

What is Wanderwörter the plural of?
Wanderwörter is the plural of Wanderwort.
How do you pronounce Wanderwörter?
Wanderwörter is pronounced /ˈwɒndəˌwətə/ (UK).

Words near Wanderwörter in the dictionary

  1. wanderword
  2. wanderwords
  3. wanderwort
  4. Wanderworte
  5. wanderworts
  6. Wanderwörter
  7. wandery
  8. wanderyear
  9. wanderyears
  10. wandes
  11. wandflower

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Wanderwörter (page history and authors); Wanderwort (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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