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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.

e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There's also quite a bit of English, eg.

Window -> vindu

Leather (animal skin) -> skinn

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

That's the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.

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