Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft
Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft is a compound word that serves as an example of the virtually unlimited compounding of nouns that is possible in many Germanic languages. According to the 1996 "Guinness Book of World Records", it is the longest word published in the German language.
Names of Germany
Among the indigenous peoples of North America of former French and British colonial areas, the word for "Germany" came primarily as a borrowing from either French or English. For example, in the Anishinaabe languages, three terms for "Germany" exist: ᐋᓂᒫ ("Aanimaa", originally "Aalimaanh", from the French "Allemagne"), ᑌᐦᒋᒪᓐ ("Dechiman", from the English "Dutchman") and ᒣᐦᔭᑴᑦ ("Meyagwed", Ojibwe for "foreign speaker" analogous to Slavic "Némcy" "Mutes" and Arab (ajam) "mute"), of which "Aanimaa" is the most common of the terms to describe Germany.