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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "muffig" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "muffig" 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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do you use the alternative pronunciation miefig? Is there a difference? There’s also a bit of an overlap with spießig right?
I never use “miefig” and to me, it’s a different word, coming from the noun “der Mief”, which I used to use.
I can see “Mief” used in a context of “spießig” but not “muffig”. “muffig” or “muffelig” is what I am in the morning without coffee.
There’s also “piefig” … THAT one is like “spießig”. Maybe that’s what you meant?
Yeah like Morgenmuffel -I love that word!
There actually isnt a direct translation into english that i can think of but id go with “morning grouch” or “morning grump” and people would know what you are talking about..
Anyway the reason i ask about miefig / muffig is that DWDS gives one particular sense of “mieffig” as “muffig”
https://www.dwds.de/wb/miefig?o=mieffig
https://www.dwds.de/wb/muffig#2
Its interesting however that you see the two words as being distinct.
“stuffy” is not such a bad translation of spießig imo. Again thats a tricky one to translate properly….