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Wanderlust is a loanword
Loanword

A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
 from German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 to English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 that designates a strong desire for or impulse to wander, or, in modern usage, to travel
Travel

Travel is the change in Location of people on a trip through the means of transport from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation , for business trip or for commuting; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc....
 and to explore the world.

word came into English in 1875 or 1902 as a reflection of what was then seen as a characteristically German predilection for wandering that may be traced back to German romanticism
German Romanticism

For the general context, see Romanticism.In the philosophy, art, and culture of German language-speaking countries, German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
 and the German system of apprenticeship
Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or prot?g?s build their careers from apprenticeships....
.

The term forms from the German words wandern (to hike) and lust (enjoy).






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Wanderlust is a loanword
Loanword

A loanword is a word directly taken into one language from another with little or no translation. By contrast, a calque or loan translation is a related concept whereby it is the Meaning or idiom that is borrowed rather than the lexical item itself....
 from German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 to English
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 that designates a strong desire for or impulse to wander, or, in modern usage, to travel
Travel

Travel is the change in Location of people on a trip through the means of transport from one location to another. Travel is most commonly for recreation , for business trip or for commuting; but may be for numerous other reasons, such as migration, fleeing war, etc....
 and to explore the world.

Etymology

The word came into English in 1875 or 1902 as a reflection of what was then seen as a characteristically German predilection for wandering that may be traced back to German romanticism
German Romanticism

For the general context, see Romanticism.In the philosophy, art, and culture of German language-speaking countries, German Romanticism was the dominant movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries....
 and the German system of apprenticeship
Apprenticeship

Apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners of a skill. Apprentices or prot?g?s build their careers from apprenticeships....
.

The term forms from the German words wandern (to hike) and lust (enjoy). The term wandern is frequently misused as a false cognate, it in fact does not mean "to wander", but rather "to hike". Placing the two words together translates to "to enjoy hiking", although is commonly described as an enjoyment of strolling or wandering.

In German
German language

German is a West Germanic languages, thus related to and classified alongside English language and Dutch language. It is one of the world's world language and the most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union....
 the term has become somewhat obsolete. A more contemporary equivalent for the English wanderlust in the sense of "love of travel" would be Fernweh (literally "an ache for the distance").

The initial
Initial

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 of the term is always capitalized
Capitalization

Capitalization is writing a word with its first grapheme as a majuscule and the remaining letters in Lower case , in those writing systems which have a letter case....
 in German ("Wanderlust") but usually written in lower case in English ("wanderlust").