American (native or inhabitant of the USA) · Yank, Yankee
çekim: çoğul Amis · tamlayan Amis
eş: US-Amerikaner, Yankee
köken: Clipping of Amerikaner + -i. Appears to have entered the German language during the Second World War and the following occupation era, hence probably first used in reference to American soldiers.
köken: Borrowed from Occitan gavach originally ‘bird’s crop, goitre, swelling’, later ‘mountain-dweller, northerner, peasant’ (because of the high incidence of disease in these populations).