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The lyrics of this Mozart song surprised and amused me.

Bona nox

Video title: Mozart - Bona nox
Posted by: margotlorena2
Date posted: Jun 2, 2012

I didn't realize right away, but the lyrics are "Good night" in 5 languages, with each following verse (even the "pfui! pfui!") a rhyme of the preceding Good Night phrase.

While reading someone's profile, I realized for possibly the first time that the German word for a sweater, "Pullover", is based on the English words "pull over". I may not have ever thought about the word in that way before. It was just a German word to me, sort of like "palaver" is a just an English word if you don't know its etymology.

I'm also not sure I've heard it used as a word like that in English before (which helps explain why I didn't make the connection), even though wiktionary lists it as English.

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Updated to add:
I just remembered this too: Germans often use a short form of the word, Pulli.

German "Leiden" means "suffering".
German "Leidenshaft" means "passion".

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=passion
passion (n.)
Origin and meaning of passion
c. 1200, "the sufferings of Christ on the Cross; the death of Christ," from Old French passion "Christ's passion, physical suffering" (10c.), from Late Latin passionem (nominative passio) "suffering, enduring," from past-participle stem of Latin pati "to endure, undergo, experience," a word of uncertain origin. The notion is "that which must be endured."
The sense was extended to the sufferings of martyrs, and suffering and pain generally, by early 13c.
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The specific meaning "intense or vehement emotion or desire" is attested from late 14c., from Late Latin use of passio to render Greek pathos "suffering," also "feeling, emotion."

German "Begeisterung" means "enthusiasm". (Not "fascination" as I always thought.)
But wait, Google Translate does show that one meaning of "begeistern" is "to fascinate". My paper German/English books don't even list that meaning. So I wonder why the noun "Begeisterung" wouldn't also mean fascination.

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