Vol. 09 · Loanwords ·german ·1900s
Wanderlust
from Wanderlust
- Meaning
- Wandering-desire — a strong urge to travel.
- Source word
- Wanderlust
- Route into English
- Direct German borrowing in the early 1900s; resists translation because the compound is so neat.
- Arrived
- 1900s
English borrows.
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