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In German, they're still separate words, I think "diet" made its way into German and became "Diät".
by thepete2 8y ago
In German, they're still separate words, I think "diet" made its way into German and became "Diät".
- sshine 8y agoIn Danish there's both "en diæt" (what you eat, permanent) and "på diæt" (on a diet, temporary). I didn't even think about the fact that that word didn't always have the temporary meaning of the word.
- hvidgaard 8y agoThe meaning is more fluent. The doctor can put you on a strict diet with a mealplan "lægen har sat mig på en streng diæt med kostplan og det hele", that isn't necessarily temporary.
- MindTwister 8y agoThere is also "slankekur" which more or less translates to "slimming-cure"
- pluma 8y agoIronically, the wages of government representatives are also called "diets" in German. I'd say "diet" for "Ernährung" just fell out of use at some point and was reintroduced when diet fads became a thing.
- gaius 8y agoThe Vietnamese parliament is called the Diet but I don’t think it’s etymologically related.