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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Certified Professionals: "Fagfolk"

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, like German "Fach" then, I assume? That does actually make sense

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.

e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

Germanic languages do be like that sometimes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

There's also quite a bit of English, eg.

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

That's the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

There is a word for that, it is cognate. When words from different languages stem from the same word

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