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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "junge" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "junge" 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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hi Emanuel, thank you for this wonderful site full of knowledge that one could never find in a regular dictionary! Sehr hilfreich!
If you found a moment, could you please explain why we say “das Jüngste Gericht”? I find all other uses of “jüngste” referring to the past, but this one has definitely a huge portion of future in it… Vielen Dank im Voraus!
I wouldn’t necessarily say that “jüngste” has a notion of past. It’s more like “most recent”, which if course technically is in the past but that’s not the core of the word. It’s like “least old”.
As for “das jüngste Gericht” … apperantly the term is based on the idea of it being “the last day” of the entire “story arc”. So it’s the “youngest” day, the least “old” day, when counted from the actual end.
If @berlingrabers happens to read this, he could tell us what the term was in the original Hebrew version of the bible. You could also check what it’s called in the King James version just for reference :)
Many thanks, Emanuel! From what I managed to check, the term itself is a customary expression and doesn’t appear as such in the Gospel of Matthew (originally in Greek), which is the part of New Testament where it receives most attention. In many languages (for sure Polish, Spanish, English, French, Latin) the customary expression includes the word last (ostateczny / final / dernier / ultimum). But the perspective of German – to count it from the moment it happens (and not from the present of the speaker) – is definitely very interesting! Thank you for the explanation.
Just to make sure… this is NOT a usual way of counting. Normally, German would use “letzte” as well. But for some reason, the translation is with “jüngste”. Not sure why. I don’t actually think I have ever heard this type of counting used anywhere else.
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