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minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-squarejanNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 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!