Sujet : Re: Winkelwagen
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : sci.langDate : 19. Jun 2024, 15:57:56
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On 2024-06-19, db <
dieterhansbritz@gmail.com> wrote:
I thought this is a German word and wondered about it.
But I am told it's Dutch, where Winkel means shop, hence
a shopping cart. Why is shop Winkel in Dutch? I suspect
that Winkel, as in German, means angle.
Apart from the modern geometric meaning of 'angle', German "Winkel"
also means 'corner': im hintersten Winkel 'in the remotest corner'.
In English you have "corner store", so a shift in meaning from
'corner' to 'shop' in Dutch is not farfetched.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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