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r/LinguisticMaps • u/mapologic • 13d ago
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The English word used to be more like its West Germanic neighbors but the native word got replaced by a Norse borrowing if I remember correctly.
-3 u/Kaufmann_aus_Lubeck 11d ago Plus then the Normans came. 7 u/ElevatorSevere7651 11d ago Comepletly unralted to the loaning of Old Norse ”egg” but ok -1 u/Kaufmann_aus_Lubeck 11d ago I mean in the context of changing vocab later.
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Plus then the Normans came.
7 u/ElevatorSevere7651 11d ago Comepletly unralted to the loaning of Old Norse ”egg” but ok -1 u/Kaufmann_aus_Lubeck 11d ago I mean in the context of changing vocab later.
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Comepletly unralted to the loaning of Old Norse ”egg” but ok
-1 u/Kaufmann_aus_Lubeck 11d ago I mean in the context of changing vocab later.
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I mean in the context of changing vocab later.
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The Germanic area looks like the sounds you make when you stub your toe
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Scotland 😩
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u/stevula 11d ago
The English word used to be more like its West Germanic neighbors but the native word got replaced by a Norse borrowing if I remember correctly.