Successor to "Renaturation" Sought as Word of the Year

The Society for Austrian German (GSÖD) is searching for the Word of the Year 2025. Until November 3rd, suggestions for the successor of "Renaturierung", the Word of the Year 2024, can be submitted online at https://oewort.at/. Suggestions for the Non-Word, Youth Word, Saying, and Non-Saying of the Year are also welcome. A jury will receive the submissions and make a preliminary selection for the vote, which will run from November 4th to December 1st this year.

"Renaturierung" and "Volkskanzler"

"Renaturierung" was "a politically highly charged word" in 2024, the jury explained after the election last year. This became apparent after the then Climate Protection Minister Leonore Gewessler (Greens) "significantly contributed to the passing of the EU's renaturation law" - against the will of the coalition partner ÖVP.

For the Non-Word of the Year 2024, "Volkskanzler" was ahead, the self-designation of FPÖ leader Herbert Kickl in the election campaign for the National Council election. "Heast" was chosen as Austria's Youth Word of the Year last year. The Saying of the Year 2024 was "Lugner ist immörtal", a pun honoring the builder Richard "Mörtel" Lugner, who passed away last year. The Non-Saying of the Year was "Euer Wille geschehe", the altered quote from the Lord's Prayer, which brought Kickl the protest of the Catholic Church during the election campaign.

Annual Selection of the Word of the Year

The selection of the Word of the Year is conducted annually by the GSÖD in Graz in cooperation with the APA - Austria Press Agency. For the preliminary selection, words, non-words, youth words, sayings, and non-sayings are sought that are of particular importance in Austria in the current year 2025, were frequently used in the public life of the country, and/or were important or have special linguistic quality.

(APA/Red)

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