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From: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de>
Newsgroups: sci.lang
Subject: Re: Winkelwagen
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:57:56 -0000 (UTC)
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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.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy@mips.inka.de