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With Scandinavian languages it went full circle, there are lots of everyday English words stemming from old Norse :)
by piva00 1y ago
With Scandinavian languages it went full circle, there are lots of everyday English words stemming from old Norse :)
- DataDaoDe 1y agoyes, a lot indeed. Even some very rare adoptions that almost never happen in languages (like the pronoun they). My most favorite has to be window though from the Old Norse vindauga (vind = wind, auga = eye).
- BurningFrog 1y agoAs a Swede, I can recognize the norse root of most English word for things that existed 1000 years ago.
- liotier 1y agoSame in French. When my colleagues tell me about "le repository Git", I love to answer about "le repositoire git" - sounds mightily quaint but that French word is actually the one through which the Latin repositorium percolated to English.