Word: bergwerk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Sept. 4, in its article on "Little Siberia," makes a pardonable mistranslation of Bergfrauen as "mountain women," since the German language can at times be untranslatable. The word Berg, although it means mountain when it stands alone, means mine when it precedes another noun; e.g., Bergwerk-mine, Bergakademie-mining institute, Bergmann-miner. Bergmann, it is true, can mean mountaineer, but only when we are speaking of mountains. In this instance, the term Bergfrauen refers to women who mine...
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