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A comment on Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-Germanic words (1998). Parent comment

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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