| hamburgerThe sandwich is American. The name still points to Hamburg. | Hamburg | From its product | Probable |
| frankfurterThe hot dog’s older name is a city adjective. | Frankfurt | From its product | Well attested |
| cologneThe fragrance is named for Cologne, in German Köln. | Cologne | From its product | Well attested |
| seltzerFizz is named for a German spring. | Selters | From its product | Well attested |
| homburgThe hat is named for a German spa town. | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe | From its product | Well attested |
| NeanderthalA whole human species is named for a small German valley. | Neandertal | From the place | Well attested |
| RottweilerThe dog is named for a town on the Neckar. | Rottweil | From the place | Well attested |
| BerlinerThe doughnut is simply a Berliner. | Berlin | From its people | Well attested |
| hockThe English name for Rhine wine is a clipped German town. | Hochheim am Main | Historical name | Well attested |
| BattenbergThe checked cake is named for a German village, by way of a royal wedding. | Battenberg | From the place | Well attested |
| berlinThe carriage is named for the city where it was designed. | Berlin | From the place | Well attested |
| Black Forest cakeThe cake is named for a German upland, through its cherry spirit. | Black Forest | From its product | Well attested |
| German measlesThe disease is named for the physicians who described it. | Germany | From its people | Well attested |
| Battenberg cakeThe checkerboard cake is named for a small German town almost nobody visits. | Battenberg | Indirect | Probable |
| Black Forest gâteauIt is named for a cherry spirit, not for a forest full of cakes. | Black Forest | From its product | Probable |
| Frankfurt SchoolThe Frankfurt School wrote its most famous books in American exile. | Frankfurt | From the place | Well attested |
| German shepherdBritain called it the Alsatian for nearly sixty years to avoid the word German. | Germany | From its people | Well attested |
| Hamburg parsleyThe parsley you eat from the bottom, named for the port that shipped the seed. | Hamburg | From the place | Probable |
| Jena glassModern laboratory glassware was invented in one small Thuringian university town. | Jena | From its product | Well attested |
| seltzer waterSeltzer is a worn-down spelling of Selters, a spring village in Hesse. | Niederselters | From its product | Well attested |
| darmstadtiumA city of about 160,000 people in Hesse has its name stamped permanently on the periodic table. | Darmstadt | From the place | Well attested |
| ehliteWiktionary places this one near Linz in Austria; the village is actually on the Rhine in Germany, several hundred kilometers away. | Linz am Rhein | From the place | Well attested |
| eifeliteIt was the first mineral of its group found with sodium in the octahedral site that magnesium or iron normally holds. | Eifel | From the place | Well attested |
| fichteliteA mineral as soft as talc and barely denser than water, sitting inside buried pine logs. | Fichtel Mountains | From the place | Well attested |
| FrankfurtianA word that looks like a demonym in practice means about a dozen exiled theorists. | Frankfurt | Indirect | Well attested |
| hockamoreEnglish chewed a German town down to one syllable and got hock. | Hochheim am Main | From its product | Well attested |
| lautenthaliteA mining town in the Harz that had been worked out for centuries still had a new species in its waste rock. | Lautenthal | From the place | Well attested |
| moscheliteOne of very few natural iodides, from a German mercury hill mined since the Middle Ages. | Moschel mountain | From the place | Well attested |
| zwieseliteFrom a Bavarian Forest pegmatite mined for quartz, not for the phosphates that made it famous. | Zwiesel | From the place | Well attested |