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by jameshart 1047 days ago
In English, we make words the same way - it's just that we construct them out of latin or greek roots.

"Television" is tele (Greek, 'far') + vision (Latin, 'seeing'). German for Television is "Fernsehen" - fern (German, 'far') + sehen (German, 'seeing').