Dictionary noun *reug- riechen (nach) Geruch Mundgeruch

der Mundgeruch

Meanings

1.
mouth odor, bad breath

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Word of the Day - "die Nase"- Special

We'll talk about anything 'nose' :). So words for the parts, verbs that relate to nose, and a whole bunch of nice idioms with "die Nase". #vocab-galore

Vocab:

die Nase, die Nasenflügel, die Nebenhöhlen, schnauben, rümpfen, der Geruch, der Gestank, die Stupsnase


Word Family

Root: *reug-

The core idea of this root was:

smoke, cloud

And also the idea of belching (what you do when you stand in a cloud of smoke).
The main offspring in English is reek but the root is also the origin of the name of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, which meant “bay of smoke” and of the word Ragnarok, which was about the “twilight, mist” of the Gods.

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