Date: Jan. 26th, 2022 06:08 pm (UTC)
regshoe: Redwing, a brown bird with a red wing patch, perched in a tree (Default)
From: [personal profile] regshoe
'Dog' is very similar to 'bird' in the relationship between English and Swedish—the common Swedish word (hund) has an English equivalent (hound) which is rare, old-fashioned and/or context-specific, while the common English word (dog) is unrelated—how interesting that it also appeared mysteriously! I think the fowl/fågel words are of common Germanic descent—as [personal profile] liriaen points out below, modern German has the same word—although I have no idea what happened as far back as Indo-European.
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