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[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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

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

[–] deus@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Germanic languages do be like that sometimes

[–] Kacarott@aussie.zone 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

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

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

[–] bstix@feddit.dk 7 points 10 months ago

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

[–] ziggurat@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

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