Germanism
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Germanism can mean or be confused with any of the following:
- German loan words and expressions in English
- Pan-GermanismPan-GermanismPan-Germanism is a pan-nationalist political idea. Pan-Germanists originally sought to unify the German-speaking populations of Europe in a single nation-state known as Großdeutschland , where "German-speaking" was taken to include the Low German, Frisian and Dutch-speaking populations of the Low...
- GermanisationGermanisationGermanisation is both the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or assimilation, and the adaptation of a foreign word to the German language in linguistics, much like the Romanisation of many languages which do not use the Latin alphabet...
- Germanism (linguistics)Germanism (linguistics)A Germanism is a loan word or other loan element borrowed from German for use in some other language.- Linguistic domains :* The military or public administration...
- in discussions of English writing, sometimes an awkward noun phraseEnglish noun phraseIn English grammar, a noun phrase has three components:* The head*: is the hub, the center of attraction of the noun phrase; it is the noun or pronoun around which the other parts gather together. The head determines concord with the portion of the sentence outside the noun phrase...
that seems like an attempt to construct a compound noun in the German manner is referred to as a Germanism