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What's an interesting etymology for a common term? (feddit.uk)
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[–] 4 points 4 months ago

My understanding, though it could be mistaken because I am not a scholar, is that the Germanic peoples were going through and replacing the Roman gods with Norse equivalents. But then they got to Saturn and were like "Hmm, there's not really a good 1-to-1 match here, so I guess he stays"

That might be fully untrue though. 😅

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