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[-] Deestan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago

Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.

e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)

[-] deus@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

Germanic languages do be like that sometimes

[-] Kacarott@aussie.zone 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

There's also quite a bit of English, eg.

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

[-] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 2 months ago

That's the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

There is a word for that, it is cognate. When words from different languages stem from the same word

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