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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "geizig" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "geizig" 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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Geizig = greedy, stingy, miserly – someone who hoards money or possessions and is unwilling to share.
And from there somebody who is greedy for respect – becomes ambitious (ehrgeizig).. such a small word family though. I just found few more similar word geizvoll (full of greed) and Geizhals (neck of greed??, someone who clings to money as if it were life itself). Feel free to point any mistakes or add to this list.
I’ve never heard “geizvoll” to be honest, but it sounds like it could be in an older novel.
Since you mentioned “greedy”… I feel like the core of that is “wanting MORE”, while geizig is about “not wanting to give”.
You can be bad with money and still be geizig. It’s better to not think of “geizig” as “greedy”. That’ll lead to misusing the word, I think.
Geizhals is just a person that’s very geizig.
Thanks for the explanation. I have to be careful about AI stuff at times (specifically that word – geizvoll but AI was mentioning it every now and then).