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therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• StraySojourner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  German lone word from old high German. It just means Forbidden.

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  • aluminium@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also just plain and simply “forbidden” in regular modern German.

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  • nonailsleft@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lone word?

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    • PinkPanther@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you ever see this lone word in the wild, run!

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    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Normally, words hang out in larger groups called sentences or clauses. Words are social, so they like to stick together and form social bonds and hierarchies.

      However, some words don’t have anyone to hang out with, and they’re called lone words.

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Past participle of “bieten”, “to bid”, as in “to command”. English correspondence to that is “bidden”. The prefix is “ver-” which here denotes completative aspect as well as negativity, the English correspondence to that is “for-” (not strict, but at least in this case). Sticking both together you get “forbidden” which indeed is the right translation. “The action of bidding a negative has been completed”, or, simply, “You’ve been told not to”.

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  • therealjcdenton@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you

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• grayman@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Mildly related.

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  • mutter9355@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also somewhat related

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