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Indeed, it's the same word! In the ancestor language of both English and German (and also Dutch, Low German, and many others) it's been reconstructed as "þū".
by LAC-Tech 3y ago
Indeed, it's the same word! In the ancestor language of both English and German (and also Dutch, Low German, and many others) it's been reconstructed as "þū".
- amelius 3y agoWhat is the ancestor language, and how do you pronounce þū?
- pvg 3y agoproto-West Germanic by current thinking (at least, by Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Validity_of_West_Germanic_as_a_subgroup https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Validi...