Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words
Feb 23, 2021
2 minutes
From coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.
The list, compiled by , an organisation that documents German language in the past and present, – many more than the 200 seen in an average year.
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