It’d be more accurate to say they share the same origin. Swedish and English are both part of the Germanic language family.
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jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days agoI guess this is where we get “haste”?
bricklove@midwest.social 2 days ago
thebestaquaman@lemmy.world 2 days ago
English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to classify it as a strictly “Germanic” language.
There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).
breecher@sh.itjust.works 7 hours ago
Linguists disagree with you.
lime@feddit.nu 2 days ago
and “fart” is where you get “fare”, as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Ok, “fart” is where English gets “fare”, that makes sense I guess. Is that coincidentally where English gets “far”? Otherwise I’d think it’s closer to where we get “wide”. Like weit gefahren?