Sep 16, 2022
I was watching Yuru Camp and the word "γγ€γ" cropped up a bunch of times whenever the characters referred to their part-time jobs. It is indeed a short form of γ’γ«γγ€γ, which is derived from the German word for work (Arbeit). Korean has apparently done the same with Areubaiteu (or μλ₯΄λ°μ΄νΈ if Hangul means anything to you β does not to me anyways).
I do not quite understand why they changed the meaning when they implemented it just yet, but β according to the hot minute I spent googling researching it β most German loanwords in the Japanese language were loaned when German physicians came to provide medical education in Japan after they opened up to the world in 1854.
