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[-] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

Germanic languages do be like that sometimes

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

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

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