das Druckmittel
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A fun look at the word der Druck and the difference between the verbs drucken and drücken. Featuring also: a big let down.
Vocab:
der Druck, der Händedruck, der Luftdruck, der Blutdruck, drucken, der Drucker, die Druckerei, ausdrucken, bedrucken, der Abdruck

We travel to the core of "das Mittel" and see what on earth the word middle has to do with remedy and learn loads of useful words with "Mitte" in them :)
Vocab:
die Mitte, das Mittel, mittel-, vermitteln

Word Family
The core idea of this root was:
middle, in the middle
It might be a version of the root *me- which was about measuring but that’s not certain.
The original sense of middle has been preserved in the family and is still visible in many of the offspring.
Here’s an (incomplete) list:
- mid, middle, amid
- mezzo
- median, medial
- mediocre
- intermediate
- medieval
- meso-
- milieu