Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (1998)

Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by louisdefunes on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @02:43AM (#7671928)

Some errors:

"to give rise to the rest": "rest" is latin

"ordinary waterstuff": "ordinary" is latin too.

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by glyxbaer on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @04:06AM (#7672124)

See "Herkunft":

ordinär, from french and latin: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ordinaer

Rest, as in reminder, from german, italian, latin: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Rest

Rast, as in break, from german: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Rast

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by mathieuh on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @03:18AM (#7671999)

"Rest" as in take a break from something is Germanic, "rest" as in remainder is Latin, they probably got mixed up.

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by SilasX on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @12:22PM (#7674350)

"Rest" is used to mean "remainder" is German as well. It was quite a surprise in class to read the line "Wo ist der Rest?" ... and find out it was legit German.

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by rodgerd on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @05:16AM (#7672293)

Latin was used in England prior to the arrival of the Normans; the Roman invasion, pre-German Celtic Christianity, and then the reconversion to Catholicism.

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by gphilip on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @03:17AM (#7671994)

"der Rest" is German, and so is "ordinär".

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by vidarh on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @04:32AM (#7672194)

But "ordinär" in modern German comes from French "ordinaire", which comes from Latin.

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Re:Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic word... by schoen on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:40PM (#7674920)

And Kluge agrees with my intuition that modern German "Rest" also comes from Latin (restare, 'to remain').

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