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frankfurter

FRANK-fur-ter · noun

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Origin

Frankfurter comes directly from German Frankfurter, the demonym for someone or something from Frankfurt-am-Main.

Journey

The word simply crossed from being the name for a resident or product of Frankfurt into the name of the sausage associated with that city.

Related words

It's built the same way English words like 'New Yorker' are — a place name plus a suffix meaning 'one from there,' though no other specific English cognate is given in the facts.

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