By contrast, there are so few Slavic borrowings in German in part because Slavic migrations tended to move south rather than west. Here are a few German words which have Slavic origins and which still feature in everyday German speech. die GrenzeIt is thought that the word ‘Grenze’ is derived from the Old Polish ‘granica’, displacing the old German word ‘Mark’ (or, in Old High German, ‘marka’/’marcha’). READ ALSO: 11 German words that come from the Greek languagedie KrawatteThe word’s similarity to the traditional ‘cravat’, a forerunner to the modern necktie, is easy to notice. It is thought that the name Berlin originates from the old Slavic word ‘berla’, which denotes a settlement surrounded by a wooden wall.

Source: The Local July 02, 2021 09:22 UTC