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[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Talmud

androgynos

Can you expand on this? That's greek after all right?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Probably a loan word at some point https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Androgynos

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Huh the talmud is younger than I thought then

[-] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah the Torah is the older one.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Loan words are fun, your language either lacks a word for a concept or it's very obscure so you just grab one from a neighboring culture. English has loads of them from French

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

At this point english is to french as swiss is to german.

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