Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1880s
Fest
from Fest
- Meaning
- Celebration, festival.
- Source word
- Fest
- Route into English
- German -fest suffix (Oktoberfest, songfest) productive in English by 1880; Anglosphere now coins compounds freely (slugfest, gabfest).
- Arrived
- 1880s
English borrows.
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