Editing Romansh language (section)

=== German loanwords ===
German loanwords entered Romansh as early as the Old High German period in the Early Middle Ages, and German has remained an important source of vocabulary since. Many of these words have been in use in Romansh for long enough that German speakers no longer recognize them as German, and for morphological derivations of them to have appeared, in particular through the suffix ''-egiar ~ iar'', as in Surs. ''baghegiar'', sut. ''biagear'', Surm. ''biagier'', Put. ''biager'', Vall. ''bear'' "to build", derived from Middle High German ''bûwen''. Other examples include ''malegiar'' "to paint" (← ''malen''), ''schenghegiar'' "to give (a present)" (← ''schenken''), ''schazegiar'' "to estimate" (← ''schätzen''),{{sfn|Liver|1999|p=176}} or Surs. ''betlegiar'' (sut. ''batlagear'', Surm./Put. ''batlager'', Vall. ''supetliar'') "to beg", derived from Swiss German ''bettle'' with the same meaning.{{sfn|Liver|2009|p=140}} Nouns derived from these verbs include ''maletg'' "painting", ''schenghetg'' "gift", ''schazetg'' "estimation", or ''bagetg'' "building".{{sfn|Liver|2009|p=140}} The adjective ''flissi'' "hard-working" has given rise to the noun ''flissiadad'' "industriousness". The word ''pur'' has given rise to derived words such as ''pura'' "farmwife, female farmer" or ''puranchel'' "small-time farmer", as has ''buob'' "boy" from Swiss German ''bueb'' "boy", with the derivations ''buoba'' "girl" and ''buobanaglia'' "crowd of children".