Yes it could be a word, even though you won't find it in any dictonary. The thing is, that you can create new words by adding two or more existing words. That is the reason why German was so popular among scholars until the middle of the 20th Century. It allowed them to describe new aspects by creating new words.Originally Posted by Bootsiuv
To our Hottentotten-potentaten-gross-tanten-attentats-versuch
Hottentotten are an African people
Potentat is a ruler
Tante is aunt, and Grosstante would be grandaunt
Attentat is asissination and Attentatsversuch is tried assisination
But no one (except for laywers or legal texts) uses words of that size, at least not seriously. It would be: "Das versuchte Attentat auf die Grosstante des Hottentottenpotentaten".
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