The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen
“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).
And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.
It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃
It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it.
It’s what Germans do, you can’t stop them, they’ll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn’t work as well in Englisch but w/e
The German word is beautiful, by the way: Gaumenzäpfchen
“Gaumen” is the roof of the mouth (palate).
And a “Zäpfchen” is a small “Zapfen”, which is a thing that protrudes from something, e.g. an icicle is an “Eiszapfen” and a pine cone is a “Tannenzapfen”.
It’s like someone took the sentence in the picture and made a word out of it. 🙃
Japanese usually does similar stuff. It’s the “mouth cover hang” in Japanese 口蓋垂
It’s what Germans do, you can’t stop them, they’ll compound compound words until everything is just one biglongsentenceword. Doesn’t work as well in Englisch but w/e