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minus-squareBenLeMan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-225 days agoOf course you realize that English is a Germanic language? Therefore it is you who have strayed from the proper words. 😉
minus-squarediverging@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·25 days agoGerman is not the same as Germanic. Both German and English evolved from a common ancestor, which we call Proto-Germanic. ‘Who’ and ‘Where’ are ‘*hwaz’ and ‘*hwar’ in Proto-Germanic. I would say that in this case German strayed more than English.
minus-squaresilly goose meekah@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-225 days agoWho = hwaz = wer Where = hwar = Wo
Of course you realize that English is a Germanic language? Therefore it is you who have strayed from the proper words. 😉
German is not the same as Germanic. Both German and English evolved from a common ancestor, which we call Proto-Germanic.
‘Who’ and ‘Where’ are ‘*hwaz’ and ‘*hwar’ in Proto-Germanic.
I would say that in this case German strayed more than English.
Wat?
Who = hwaz = wer
Where = hwar = Wo