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while one can have a laugh about some French words in English, the most common and essential words are pretty much all Norse -- such as tree, root, boat, grass,
by ilove_banh_mi 3y ago
while one can have a laugh about some French words in English, the most common and essential words are pretty much all Norse -- such as tree, root, boat, grass, bloom, man, egg, house, husband, hand, heart, skin, skull, cake, cow, lift, seat, from, hound, warm, blend, back, foot, cast, hate, water, bark, ford, etc.
- canjobear 3y agoEven within the Germanic words there are multiple origins. For example "shirt" and "skirt", "shatter" and "scatter", one from Anglo-Saxon and the other from Norse.
- ilove_banh_mi 3y ago"shirt" and "skirt" both come from the Old Norse "skyrta", as is the case for the two corresponding words in the modern Nordic languages