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minus-square@deegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilink5•1 year agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-square@janNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilink5•1 year agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-square@MadBob@feddit.nllinkfedilink3•edit-21 year 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!