German in FFXIFollow

There are many places where German will show up in FFXI. Whether it’s the armor you’re wearing or the item you’re holding. Some of you may already know what some of these translations are, but for those of you who are still wondering “What the heck does that mean?!” here’s a list and translations of some German words that show up in the game. I’ll start with the words that many people have heard of. Most of it is Paladin related, but here you go.

Words in German will show up in cyan.
Translations will be in italics and in red.
Words that do not exist in German will be in orange.
Words that are close to German words are in purple.
Some other info: das(neutral), die(feminine), der(masculine), die(plural)


Eisen: “Iron”
Brust: “Breast” or “Chest”
Schuhs: “Shoes”
Kampf: “Combat”
Handschuhs: “Gloves”
Kaiser: “Emperor”
Koenig: “King”
Geist: “Apparition” or “Ghost”
Zweihander: “Two hander”
Ritter: “Knight”
Blau Dolch: "Blue Dagger"
Schaller: "Stream-Lined Helmut"
Orange Kuchen: "Orange Cake"
Kriegsbeil: "War Axe{/red]"
[cyan]Kronprinz Behemoth: "Crown Prince Behemoth"
Kaiser: "Emperor Behemoth"


When we combine some of these words together we get things such as:

Eisenbrust: “Iron Chest”
Kampfbrust: “Combat Chest”
Eisenschuhs: “Iron Shoes”
Kampfschuhs: “Combat Shoes”
Koenig Handschuhs: “King Gloves”
Kaiser Handschuhs: “Emperor Gloves”
Koenig Cuirass: “King Cuirass”
Kaiser Cuirass: “Emperor Cuirass”
Ritter Shield: “Knight Shield”
Koenig Shield: “King Shield”
Kaiser Shield: “Emperor Shield”
Koenig Belt: “King Belt”
Koenig Knuckles: “King Knuckles”

And so on.


Some words from the game do not exist in German. At least to my knowledge as German goes.

For the head piece of the “Eisen, Kampf, Koenig, and Kaiser” armor sets it is called a “Schaller.” “Schaller” to my knowledge is not a word in German. A similar word to “Schaller” in German is “die Schale”. This translates to a bowl, dish, or shell in German among other things. Another word that I could not recognize is “Diechlings.” Also some of you may be wondering what “Eisen” or “Kampfhentzes” is. Well “Hentzes” is also not a word in German. I don’t think it can be even said in German. If you could it’d be very hard.

There is also another two items one called “Kaiserin Cosmetics”, and the other “Set of “Kaiserin Cosmetics.” Now we can assume “Kaiserin” means female emperor. From examples such as “Lehrerin” and “Schulerin”. Which mean female teacher and female student in German. Also the word ““Schuhs” technically is not German for shoes. I let that one slide because the actual word for shoes is “die Schuhe”. Although “Schuhe” is the plural form. Shoe in German in the singular form is “der Schuh.” This same change also goes for Handschuhs as well.

I feel it was very creative of SE to make a play of German words to make up their own for certain conditions. Such as “Hentzes” and “Diechlings” they do seem like they would be German words, but in reality they do not exist. Those are all of the German words I could find in game. If you know of any other words in FFXI that you think might be German post it here and I’ll try to update as often as I can.

Edited, Thu Jan 26 20:35:38 2006 by Deuciont

Hmmm.. Thanks. I finally know what all mhy PLD gear means.

SE's translations aren't always the sharpest.


Last year's new years event, the New Years Gift came in different languages.


The spanish one said "¡Feliz Ano Nuevo!".



I left the tilde off on purpose. They didn't.

Oh dear...

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Oh dear...

XD!!!!

Hey, good post.

Some additions:

- a "Schaller" is a full helmet from late medieval times. It was very streamlined and often had a enlarged neck-part and also a visor. The lower part of the face was protected by an additional part of the armour, called "Bart" (beard).

- Medieval plate armours had most of the time bracers, which protected the upper and the lower arm and had built-in gloves. This gloves alone were calles "Henz" (or as a plural form "Henze", which is related to the word 'Hand' btw.), which is the origion of the Eisenhentzes. (tz and z have the same pronounciation in german).

- like CRJR posted, a "Diechling" was the iron tube which made up the upper part of the plate armours 'trouser leg'.

- the word "Zweihänder" is a 100% german word. SE just didn't use the Ä in their text. It means ... well ... two-handed-sword ^^ I just wonder why they didn't name it Zweihaender, after all they also replaced the ö in König with an oe, which is an older version to write this phoneme.

- Sabot, Ledelsen, Solleret are definitly not german words ...

- Kampf ... hm ... battle, struggle, fight, combat in certain terms also contest or match. Geist can also be 'mind' (and is used more often in that way), while the word ghost translates to 'Gespenst'.

- Gustaberg and Zulkheim sound german too, and the Drachenfall (Dragon's Fall) is a german-named landmark. Some of the NPC-Hume have germanlike names and I know from a NM called Baumesel (~ tree-donkey) and a weapon called Rosenbogen (Bow of Roses).

Edited, Wed Jan 25 21:05:23 2006 by Aralays

Yeah those words are German only problem is I'd have to put the actual English definition since the English language basically just used those words directly.

Edit: Oh yeah about 45% of the English language has its roots from the German language.

Edited, Wed Jan 25 23:51:40 2006 by Deuciont

Orange Kuchen .... gibts garnet hehe,der name erinnert mehr an was holländisches.

Orange Kuchen ... ich wusste doch, ich hab was vergessen bei meiner Aufzählung. ><

Doch, doch, Oma hat immer OK gemacht... so wie Zitrone usw.

Krieg = war
kampf = Fight/combat

so Kriegsbeil is Waraxe
and the WSNM for SAM i think is named Ketten beetle which would be Chain beetle or ironchain beetle.

Just added three more that people posted. Keep'em coming.

Gib mir mehr!

Consider including Weaponskills and abilities like that of the Rdm AF3 Doll Panzerfaust (Rocket Propelled Grenade, circa WW2)

I know those dolls have some other ones as well. I thought it was pretty cool

There's a rare/ex GA called Eisentaenzer. My GF is german and she told me it means Iron Dancer.