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An outstanding exception is geopolitics , acknowledgedly from German Geopolitik , but even in that case there are antedating overtones from Swedish and French.
The Latin, Greek, or Old English roots are readily discernible (though I cannot explain the -etz in the last case), and generate few if any metaphorical overtones.
Fact: the word was already taking on prejudicial overtones a century and a half ago.
But its plural form duendes also signified `household gods,' like the Roman Lares and Penates, and took on even broader, pantheistic overtones in duendes de las montañas y de las cuevas `spirits of the mountains and caves.
DISABLED PARKING PLACES conjure up a nice version of a handicapped car park while MOTORCYCLE BAY SUSPENDED has overtones of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.