Word: riechen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alike and mean the same thing -- for example, person, winter and arm. Plenty of words have only slight differences: if you're nervous in English, you're nervos in German. With a little imagination, one can find any number of common roots. Take, for example, the verb to smell: riechen, from the same root as the English reeks. The malodorousness does not exist in the German word, but the odor does...
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