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Interestingly, Norwegian has both "luft" (air)/"lufte" (to air) and "lukt"/"lukte" (smell, to smell), and it turns out they share the same proto-Germanic origin
by vidarh 3y ago
Interestingly, Norwegian has both "luft" (air)/"lufte" (to air) and "lukt"/"lukte" (smell, to smell), and it turns out they share the same proto-Germanic origin as Dutch "luchten" as well as the equivalent German terms, and English "to lift" and Norwegian "å løfte", all centering around air with different angles.
- _pvxk 3y agoAnd in Bergen you can use "lukt" to mean both, "høyt opp i lukten", maybe the Hanseatic influence? (My kid uses "luft" to mean both, "lufte ekkelt".)