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Originally Posted by Henri II
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Originally Posted by Boris
Seeing as the term sonar hadn't even been coined in WW2 I don't think...
The correct term would be "Echolot"
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Not really, an echolot, as the name implies, is a depth sounder which operates somewhat simmilar to the ASDIC. The german word for (passive) sonar would be Hydrophon or perhaps Horchgerät. I'm not sure what the official term used by the Kriegsmarine was. |
In general imported words from other languages were not desired in Nazi Germany in order to keep the language pure and not "pollute" it with anglicisms, like it is done today. So a "hydrophone" would have been officially a "Hochgerät", a "convoy" was a "Geleitzug" or just "Geleit".
BUT ASDIC remained ASDIC, and radar remainded radar, because there were no German words for that.
Correction: Just found out that "radar" was sometimes called "Funkmessgerät" by the Kriegsmarine, Luftwaffe and Wehrmacht when they referred to their OWN devices. Sorry for the mixup.