I'm an expert in most Germanic languages, mainly: German, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, Faroese and English. I also know some Frysian, Old English, Frankish, Old Norse and have a deep etimologic knowledge.
In this thread you can ask any questions about Germanic languages and I'll answer them.
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Anonymous2008-05-16 12:51
Please complete the following list:
English: Poo = shit ; To poop = To shit
German: Po = ass ;
NL Dutch: Poep = shit ; Poepen = To shit
BE Dutch: Poep = ass ; Poepen = To fuck
Swedish:
Norwegian:
Danish:
Icelandic:
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Anonymous2008-05-16 13:25
Swedish: på = on
Norwegian: på = on
Danish: på = on
Icelandic: pabbi = dad
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Anonymous2008-05-16 18:13
why does your discipline down play the celtic influence on english? i don't understand how three hundred year old political concerns are still of importance now.
>>5
for being an english expert, your ability to comprehend a simple english sentence isn't very good.
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Anonymous2008-05-17 8:16
>>6
I could say the same about you. First post states: GERMANIC language expert.
Can you read it? Is your brain capable of processing this information? Even though English is heavily influenced by French for example, French isn't a Germanic language, and therefore, doesn't belong in this thread. Same goes for Celtic languages.
And now to be blunt: nobody cares about your shepherd failed languages.
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Anonymous2008-05-17 9:54
Is English really a germanic language? Most of its words come from latin.
>>9
30% + 20% from french, which is a latin language
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Anonymous2008-05-17 12:15
It may have had a large influence from scandinavian and french [citation needed]due to us being invaded, but it is still a Germanic language.
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Anonymous2008-05-17 16:13
anglo-americans are now officially latino scum
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Anonymous2008-05-17 18:06
ETYMOLOGY OF GERMANIC LANGUAGES IS NOTHING TO DO WITH GERMANIC LANGUAGES GUYS.
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Anonymous2008-05-17 18:06
the etmyology of germanic languages is nothing to do with germanic languages guys
enjoy your idiot holes
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Anonymous2008-05-21 9:31
English: Poo = shit ; To poop = To shit
German: Po = ass ; popen = To fuck
NL Dutch: Poep = shit ; Poepen = To shit
BE Dutch: Poep = ass ; Poepen = To fuck
Swedish:
Norwegian:
Danish:
Icelandic:
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Anonymous2008-05-21 10:24
where does the word "germanic" come from? I thought it came from spearmen (ger=spear iirc), but apparantly this is not correct?
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Anonymous2008-05-21 13:58
>>16
It comes from Latin, "Germanus". Germanus combines two roots: "germen" and "anus". It literally means "the source of the butthole (anus)".
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Anonymous2008-05-23 18:04
>>17
No, you're right about it stemming from germanus, which is the combination of two roots, however those roots are "germ" and "anus". It literally means the butthole of a microbial organism.
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Anonymous2008-05-26 6:36
>>15
This clearly differentiates tribal society which buttsexed and which didn't.
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Anonymous2008-06-01 14:14
>>15
German: Po = ass ; poppen = To fuck; pupsen = to fart; puppe = doll
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Anonymous2008-06-02 19:36
I don't think you know Faroese, OP.
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Anonymous2008-06-02 22:17
I don't think you know English, OP.
*knowledge of etymology.
*Frisian.
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Anonymous2008-06-03 6:01
>>10
You can't add those percentages like that. Most of the words borrowed from Latin came *through* French.
A computerised survey of about 80,000 words in the old Shorter Oxford Dictionary (3rd ed.) was published in Ordered Profusion by Thomas Finkenstaedt and Dieter Wolff (1973)[38] that estimated the origin of English words as follows:
* Langue d'oïl, including French and Old Norman: 28.3%
* Latin, including modern scientific and technical Latin: 28.24%
* Other Germanic languages (including words directly inherited from Old English): 25%
* Greek: 5.32%
* No etymology given: 4.03%
* Derived from proper names: 3.28%
* All other languages contributed less than 1%
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Anonymous2008-06-04 6:25
French and Latin only gave English a much richer vocabulary. The bare bones of English is still almost entirely of germanic origin. Numbers, days of the week, parts of the body, etc. etc. All german
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Anonymous2008-06-04 22:27
Borrowing words doesn't change the origin and structure of a language. Ottoman Turkish had far more Arabic/Persian words than Turkic ones, but still it was an Altaic language, not a Semitic/Indo-European.
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Anonymous2008-06-05 10:46
German: Arsch = Ass; ficken = to Fuck ; scheißen = to shit