• thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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        17 hours ago

        English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to classify it as a strictly “Germanic” language.

        There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).

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      1 day ago

      and “fart” is where you get “fare”, as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.

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        21 hours ago

        Ok, “fart” is where English gets “fare”, that makes sense I guess. Is that coincidentally where English gets “far”? Otherwise I’d think it’s closer to where we get “wide”. Like weit gefahren?