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Appendix:German cognates with English

There are many hundreds of German words that are cognate with English words. In fact, this is true for a sizeable fraction of the native German and English vocabularies, but for various reasons many of these cognates are not immediately obvious. Nevertheless, many of them are easy to correlate since the German words follow the rules of High German consonant shift, which is a German phenomenon and makes English stay closer to the Proto-Germanic language, from which both, English and German, derive. For convenience of presentation this list has been limited to cognates whose etymologies can be established to the Proto-Germanic period at the earliest, or within the past 3000 years or so. Modern English has a large number of words of French origin, of which many are cognates of German words due to mutual descent from roots in the common Proto-Indo-European language (about 6000 years or so ago), from which both the Germanic and the Romance languages descend. This list ignores cognates of this linguistic depth. Etymology resources for further investigation of cognates include: For German words: 1. Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (DWDS) (direct link to a one-word entry: https://www.dwds.de/wb/[insert search word here]) 2. Duden 3. Wiktionary (German) (direct link to a one-word entry: https://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/[insert search word here]) 4. Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm (at DWDS and at woerterbuchnetz.de) (for advanced investigation; no modern orthography) For English words: 1. dictionary.com 2. Oxford Dictionaries 3. Online Etymology Dictionary (direct link to a one-word entry: https://www.etymonline.com/word/[insert search word here]) 4. Wiktionary (English) (direct link to a one-word entry https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/[insert search word here])