Pronounced: au-toe-KIN-uh-see, noun
Notes: Another word that is new to me
Yesterday’s word
The word sprachgefühl means
- the character of a language
- an intuitive sense of what is linguistically appropriate
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s
Background / Comments
Our word comes (as you might think) from German – the word Sprache (language; speech) and Gefühl (feeling). Because nouns are capitalized in German, our word is sometimes written capitalized. Our word is relatively rare, making infrequent appearances in English.
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