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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "etage" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "etage" on Wiktionary (English version)
(For etymological connections across European languages. Not always accurate) - Etymonline.com - Origins of English words
My favorite source for the origin of English words.
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Etage, Stockwerk,Stock, Geschoss. That’s quiet a lot of words for the same thing…
Are there any differences?? Which of these do you use? How do you say “Ground floor” if using Etage? “untere ETage”??
No difference in meaning, but in when which one is used to some extend. There’s “Dachgeschoss” but not “Dachetage” or “Dachstock”. It’s just not idiomatic to use these.
As for say “Ergeschoss” without saying “Geschoss” … I would call that “unterste Etage”. “untere” sounds like there are only two floors to me, the lower one and the upper one.
In daily life, I mainly use Stock, with Etage a close second and then Geschoss ONLY in the fixed compounds like Dachgeschoss, Erdgeschoss oder 10-geschössig.