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[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I appreciate the use of forlorn, which stems from Dutch verloren (lost, abandoned).

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

This is a pet peeve of mine, but no. All three words forlorn (English), verloren (Dutch), and verloren (German) have the same origin, but none derive from another.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

If I remember correctly, words that are basically linguistic cousins are called cognates

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