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Re:British Placename Mapper by eigenket on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:05AM (#39989763)
In the UK the word comes from Norse, via the Viking Invasion not directly from anything Germanic (other than that Germanic and Norse share some stuff).
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Re:British Placename Mapper by vidarh on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @09:45AM (#39990682)
Norse is/was a Germanic language, just like Norwegian, German, Dutch, German and English.

English, though has Germanic influence in multiple rounds - both through the influx of Angles and Saxons, and through the later viking invasions.

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