Hmm. . .you guys seem to think I'm an expert on German. Yeah, I live near a city originally settled by Germans, but I've only taken up to German 3 in high school.
As far as I know, Dachshund translates literally as "roof dog", which makes absolutely no sense. "Dach" means roof and "Hund" means dog.
A couple side notes about Germans in Cincinnati.
-The Cinci Oktoberfest is the largest outside of Germany
-There were once several beer companies in Cinci, but because they were able to make enough money just from local business none of them expanded and most of them went down when that darn Milwaukee company expanded.
-In the 1930s they built a subway system, but eventually ran out of money, it being the Depression and all. Now we have empty subway tunnels under the streets of Cincinnati because they've never found in necessary since for Cinci to have a subway system.
