[Fiji Hill]

The German word for "flight," as in travel through the air, sky or space, is "der Flug." For example, "the flight of the bumblebee" is "der Flug der Hummel." "to fly" is "fliegen."

Incidentally, the German word for "hand" is "die Hand" and the plural is "die Hände, as in "Hände hoch!" ("stick 'em up!" or "reach for the sky!"--literally "hands high").

Getting back to the celebrity of the day, the German word "Fluch" means "curse." In Dutch, the word is "vloek," which is pronounced "fluke."

[jmacusa]

I see. It seems to me German is a language that has many words either to describe one thing depending on the context or situation. Now ‘’fluch’’ is ‘’curse’’ and “Hexen’’is ‘’witch’’, right? Ergo in English to put the ‘’hex’’ on somebody is to ‘’curse’’ them? Also it seems German doesn’t use the Latin prefix ‘’anti-’’ but instead it use’s the word ‘’abwehr’’ or ‘’against’’. So ‘’anti-aircraft’’ become ‘’fliegerabwehrkannone’’ or ‘’flying against cannon’’?