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Kulturwort

noun

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Kulturwort, from Kultur (“culture”) + Wort (“word”).

  1. inherited from *wréh₂ds✻ — “a root”
  2. inherited from *wrōts✻ — “a root”
  3. inherited from *wurti✻ — “a root; a spice”
  4. inherited from wyrt — “a plant; vegetable; herb, spice”
  5. inherited from wort
  6. formed as kulturwort — “Kultur + Wort”

Definitions

  1. A word borrowed among many languages denoting a cross-cultural concept.

  2. Alternative letter-case form of Kulturwort.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA