Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1930s
Autobahn
from Autobahn
- Meaning
- Auto-way — Germany's motorway network, mostly without speed limits.
- Source word
- Autobahn
- Route into English
- 1930s German motorway construction; English-language journalism kept the German word.
- Arrived
- 1930s
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