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Branch of the Indo-European languages from Northern Europe, including English, German, Dutch, and the Scandinavian languages
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What was the original Germanic agent suffix before Proto-Germanic speakers borrowed -er from...
As in many languages in Germanic the present participle could be used as an agent. In some Germanic languages such as Old English the participle and agent could sometimes be differentiated with the pa …
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What was the original Germanic agent suffix before Proto-Germanic speakers borrowed -er from...
It's worth reading this article on academia.edu:
Gąsiorowski, Piotr "Cherchez la femme: Two Germanic suffixes, one etymology" in "Folia Linguistica" vol. 51 (2017) (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017) pp 125-14 …
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Is English "<adjective> to <verb>" an idiomatic schema, or what do you call "easy to do"?
This is an odd one.
I'm not sure relating it to modern German is relevant. It is two thousand year since English and High German were one dialect and nearly a thousand years since they were mutually i …
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Verner's Law and 'ge-'
Verner's Law says that voiceless fricatives, when immediately following an unstressed syllable in the same word, underwent voicing.
The Germanic prefix 'ge-' as in German 'genug' or English 'enough' i …
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Do Germanic words have Romance qualities and vice-versa?
Last year I watched on TV here (England) a Flemish drama series sub-titled in English - I was amazed how many French words were used in conversational Flemish - the characters even said 'oui' for 'yes …
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Not affected by Grimm's Law?
From memory (from reading some book in the past - i'm not that old) I believe it was borrowed from Scythian after Grimm's law had happened and that it was the Scythian word for their royal roads.
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Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc?
The normal English (as spoken in England) is 'I'm called'. From the responses given so far I am very surprised to discover this is not used in some american dialects but certainly it is very common in …
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Have linguistics found any evidence that Semitic languages influenced Germanic languages or ...
No - however that doesn't mean semitic words which described man-made goods did not enter the Proto-germanic wordstore when that good was traded - words such as this are known as 'Wanderwörter' or 'wa …
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Why did 'r' disappear in English "speak" (compare German "sprechen") and in German "Welt" (c...
Different reasons.
'they speak/they spoke' in Protogermanic was something like 'sprekanþi/spurkun'. Note the different position of the 'r'. Our forebears made the word more regular with the Germans go …
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