This always messed with me as a kid because for no reason I can come up with, xylophone made sense as the metal one and glockenspiel made sense as the wood one

It took more effort than it should to unlearn this

[–] pumpkinseedoil@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

German Glocke = English bell = made out of metal

Literally Glockenspiel = bell game

[–] Flughoernchen@feddit.de 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Chiming in for clarification: Literally it's "bell game" but the word's meaning is more like "bells that play" or "bells to play with".

[–] JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Oh yah, play with mein bells

[–] hardaysknight@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Aw man I just spieled on mein glock

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

And this is why it is good advice not to think too much about that word as a German speaker.

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Xylo=wood in Greek

Knowing this made this even more confusing though!