Sentence examples for German in origin from inspiring English sources

The update on the British original is essentially German in origin, although an American, Frank Stephenson, is credited with the design.

It turned out to be German in origin, too, and means "bright in councel".

She says that while it's hard to define American food by iconic dishes — the hot dog and hamburger are, after all, German in origin — there's a spice and flavor combination that is consistent through decades of American cuisine.

The New Yorker, November 14 , 1942P. 11 Uncle Robert has beguna campaign to replace the word "Kindergarten," which he spurns as being German in origin, with some good American equivalent, like "passtime Class, or "juvenile class".

By Stanley Edgar Hyman The New Yorker, November 14, 1942 P. 11 Uncle Robert has beguna campaign to replace the word "Kindergarten," which he spurns as being German in origin, with some good American equivalent, like "passtime Class, or "juvenile class".

Nor was attraction toward European intellectualism dead in the late 20th century, for by the mid-1980s the approach known as structuralism, a phenomenon predominantly French and German in origin, infused the very study of English literature itself in a host of published critical studies and university departments.

So much for the material's being "purely German in its origins".

The Grimms, in the introduction to their first edition, assert that almost all their material was "collected" from oral traditions of their region and is "purely German in its origins".

He goes on to discuss a whole range of such transliterated tongues, comparable with the Jewish vernaculars Yiddish and Ladino (in origin German and Spanish dialects respectively, both written in Hebrew script).

The Irish writer Hugo Hamilton picked up the Femina foreign prize for "The Speckled People," about his experience growing up in a family of Irish and German origin in Dublin in the 1950's.

The samples used were chosen to be as close as possible in their age and of German origin (in years, 11, 13, and 15 years old for Turners (45,X); 18, 18, and 19 years old for males (46,XY); 19, 19, and 19 years old for females (46,XX); 15, 15, and 16 years old for Klinefelters (47,XXY)).