Coronaangst ridden? Overzoomed? Covid inspires 1,200 new German words

Linguist who compiled list of words says they help tell story of life during pandemic

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From coronamude (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.

The list, compiled by the Leibniz Institute for the German Language, an organisation that documents German language in the past and present, already comprises more than 1,200 new German words - many more than the 200 seen in an average year.