what does that say about the germans ? did their
ancesters have no windows that they had to borrow
fenster from latin ? ( or is it an amazing
coincidence, or indeed a latin borrowing from a
germanic word ? ! )
--- John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote: >
> Our word for "window" probably would have been
> "eyethirl" or the like
> if it hadn't been displaced by an Old Norse
> borrowing. Evidently the
> Old English thought of windows as primarily for
> seeing through, whereas
> the Old Norse thought of them as primarily devices
> to let the air in.
>
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