balderdash@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agoMeat.lemmy.zipimagemessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1311arrow-down112
arrow-up1299arrow-down1imageMeat.lemmy.zipbalderdash@lemmy.zip to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-squarejanNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-25 months agoWonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
I wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
Maybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
Wonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
So it was thorn
All along!