Re: English oddities
| From: | John Cowan <jcowan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, July 10, 2000, 20:56 |
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Mangiat wrote:
> I was wondering in the last days where the word 'TIME' is from.
It's a borrowing from Old Norse. There are many such words that have
been borrowed and then semantically differentiated from their native
counterparts: time and tide, skirt and shirt, etc.
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