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If I am not mistaken the word "debt" either has the same root or derives from the word "sin" in Protestant tradition.
by atmosx 10y ago
If I am not mistaken the word "debt" either has the same root or derives from the word "sin" in Protestant tradition.
- stevoski 10y agoNot so much Protestant tradition as Germanic languages. The German word for debt "Schuld" also means guilt, fault, and blame.
- pluma 10y agoNote that in German the word is generally used in plural when talking about debt and singular when talking about guilt/blame. "My fault" -> "Meine Schuld" "My debt" -> "Meine Schulden" I think both also behave as mass nouns, so there's rarely any ambiguity.
- jakub_g 10y agoInteresting. In Polish OTOH "debt" is a separate word, but I just realized that "to owe someone" and "to be guilty" is the same verb.