I'm a simple emigrant and I love daily discoveries

Sometimes this happens: you go on living your life and suddenly you realize something. And instantly you're so happy and cheerful. These situations happen to me all the time, for example, recently my sister told me that there are no receptors in the skin for sensing moisture. Now it's clear why when you sit on something cold, it sometimes seems that the place is wet. But more often I have discoveries with borrowed words. And I'm not talking about those cases when a word simply moved into Russian as backpack or wagon. I'm more interested in "Russified" words. Words like the butterfly effect – heard on one shore, and on the other they already adapted it to something of their own. Here are a few of my favorite examples. Resort – derives from KurOrt – that's how Germans call a spa town, and we usually use it as a vacation spot. We found this out when I tried to explain what the city of Sochi is and randomly said "we call it курорт," and the German person understood! to study intensively, to cram – derives from Studieren – in German it means to study, to learn. In Russian it's used more as to study something thoroughly, not to memorize, but to check it well. That is, Russians attached a Russian suffix and the ending of the verb to the German root to form a new meaning. Apron – derives from Vortuch – in German this means a piece of fabric in front of something, like aprons in old times. For us it's obvious: we wear an apron before cooking to avoid dirtying the clothes. In German, this would be Schürze. Have you encountered such words? Share in the comments 🥰 In the photo, the most essential book from the library of my former home in Frankfurt. #useful #language