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In the UK the word comes from Norse, via the Viking Invasion not directly from anything Germanic (other than that Germanic and Norse share some stuff).
by eigenket 3y ago
In the UK the word comes from Norse, via the Viking Invasion not directly from anything Germanic (other than that Germanic and Norse share some stuff).
- vidarh 3y agoNorse is/was a Germanic language, just like Norwegian, German, Dutch, German and English. English, though has Germanic influence in multiple rounds - both through the influx of Angles and Saxons, and through the later viking invasions.