Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1850s
Doppelgänger
from Doppelgänger
- Meaning
- Double-walker — a ghostly counterpart of a living person.
- Source word
- Doppelgänger
- Route into English
- Coined by the German romantic novelist Jean Paul (1796); spread through 19th-c. English Gothic literature.
- Arrived
- 1850s
English borrows.
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