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How do we know that English "much" and Spanish "mucho" are not related?

• timonoko 3y ago
  Sounds just a little bit stupid. On that note: Finnish "moni" and Middle English "moni" mean the same ie "many". According to Wiktionary they are not related in any way.
• cc101 3y ago
  According to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), "much" derives from Old High German and/or Old Norse with a reference to Greek. There are scholars who trace language written example by written example back a thousand years or more. Try browsing the OED some day. It's fascinating. "Mucho" is likely derived from Latin, but I have no actual information on that.
  • wryoak 3y ago
    All of this was covered in the link
    • cc101 3y ago
      It's a question not a link. People who read Reddit are arrogant idiots. Now your abusive behavior is polluting HN. People like you don't belong on HN.
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• raverbashing 3y ago
  Also, "mucho" has a meaning closer to "many"/"very" than "much"