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minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 months agoI’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.
minus-squarescrion@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 months agoI can’t tell if you are implying any disagreement, so I’ll just add that the Proto-Germanic origin for the second half of lady (hlǽfdige) definitely stems from kneading: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/daigijǭ Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!
minus-squareNougat@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 months agoIt’s fantastic, I just re-listened to the whole thing.
I’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.
I can’t tell if you are implying any disagreement, so I’ll just add that the Proto-Germanic origin for the second half of lady (hlǽfdige) definitely stems from kneading: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/daigijǭ
Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!
It’s fantastic, I just re-listened to the whole thing.