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Ahem, hand is a cognate of old German and Dutch .. Also, the '-ing' part comes from the continent, as well. :)
by mmjaa 9y ago
Ahem, hand is a cognate of old German and Dutch ..
Also, the '-ing' part comes from the continent, as well. :)
- eru 9y agoSure, there are lots of cognates. Some of the hardest to translate words are actually cognates. For example it's almost impossible to properly translate the German word 'Brot' into English. It's a cognate of 'bread', but Germans mean something very different by 'Brot' than the British mean by 'bread'. Loaning a word ad-hoc is much easier by comparison. Eg Bundeskanzler means exactly the same in English as it does in German. As does Prime Minister.