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Translation rule(slrpnk.net)

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Deestan@lemmy.world
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Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

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Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.

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

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deus@lemmy.world
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Germanic languages do be like that sometimes

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Kacarott@aussie.zone
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There’s also quite a bit of English, eg.

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

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bstix@feddit.dk
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That’s the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.

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

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