Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1850s
Kindergarten
from Kindergarten
- Meaning
- Children-garden — Friedrich Fröbel's pedagogical method.
- Source word
- Kindergarten
- Route into English
- Fröbel founded the first kindergarten in 1837; the institution and word arrived in English-speaking countries together in the 1850s.
- Arrived
- 1850s
English borrows.
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