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Sources for Etymology:
- Check "zeugnis" on DWDS.de
Biggest German Dictionary, great for etymology, usage frequency and collocations) - "zeugnis" 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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I’ve seen objects in museums described as “Zeugnisse”. I guess evidence might be a translation of that ? Or do you have suggestions?
It doesn’t need to be a “zeugnis” of something necessarily? You can just refer to an archological object as a “Zeugnis”?
No, you need to add what it’s a “Zeugnis” of. You can’t say:
– Das Bild ist ein Zeugnis.
This makes no sense.
– Das Bild ist ein Zeugnis der Fähigkeiten Michelangelos.
This does.
Think of this “Zeugnis” as “bearing witness”. It’s a mix of “showcasing ” and “giving evidence”.