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edwardianspinsteraunt ([personal profile] edwardianspinsteraunt) wrote in [personal profile] regshoe 2022-01-25 08:01 pm (UTC)

This is all so interesting! I love it when words just pop up in a language and there's no way of tracing where they came from (I think "dog" is another example of that). And the pathways of semantic change are always so idiosyncratic and weird! I wonder if "fugheles" was a direct borrowing from Norse or if they both descend from some proto Germanic/Indo-European root...

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