brandneu

Concepts

brand new

brand-new

Clean

very fresh

Synonyms

funkelnagelneu

nagelneu

ganz neu

nigelnagelneu

neu

🆕

unbenutzt

unberührt

ofenfrisch

taufrisch

blitzblank

flammneu

flatschneu

frisch auf den Tisch

noch ganz warm

sehr neu

frisch aus

fabrikneu

ofenwarm

frisch

glänzend

jungfräulich

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈbʁantˈnɔʏ̯/

Etymology

Ca. 1930, from Brand (“fire, burning”) + neu (“neu”), after English brand new (originally “fresh from the fire”, as of a piece of metal).
It is possible that German Brand goes back to phono-semantic matching of English brand rather than true loan translation, seeing that the archaic sense “fire” is not widely known among German learners of English. This would mean that the original sense of the English construct was unconsciously and, in a sense, accidentally reproduced in German.