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From: Philip Shaw <philip@invalid>
Subject: Re: Alternative to "photograph"
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On Monday, October 19, 2009 11:33:31 AM UTC+2, Thomas Lotze wrote:
> I'm looking for a "native english" alternative to the word "photograph".
> To give an example, we have the word "Lichtbild" in German, which
> describes the concept of an image created by or using light in native
> german words. Is there an analogous word in English or has "photography"
> been the first and only term ever used to describe photographs? Thank you
> very much.
There isn't really a germanic-root equivalent to "photograph" - AFAIK,
"photograph" has always been the standard term used for it in
English. That is consistent with other earlier and later terms, such
as "lithograph" and "mimeograph", and doesn't stick out in English
because of the much stronger Romance influence.
(Indeed, most compound words coined in English in relatively modern
times are made from components with Greek or Latin roots (although
marketing considerations might be shifting that since Germanic words
are percived as more forceful and more down-to-earth).)
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