Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1939
Blitzkrieg
from Blitzkrieg
- Meaning
- Lightning war — fast, overwhelming military attack.
- Source word
- Blitzkrieg
- Route into English
- WWII German military doctrine; English newspapers used the word during the 1939–40 invasions of Poland and France. "Blitz" alone became a verb.
- Arrived
- 1939
English borrows.
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