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We be blind to our own language
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Don't be mean. I promise to do my best to judge that fairly.
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The best German etymology website considers “mal” [time, instance] to be the root of Mahl(zeit) [meal(time)]. Apparently mahlen is unrelated? My mind is also blown.
“Time time” is a wild thing to call meals, but I guess we know what the focus was.
Yeah, but I think this has been though "measure" and it makes sense to get measure from time.