▲ 614 ▼ TIL the word 'lox' (smoked salmon) is the oldest word in the English language- unchanged in meaning and pronunciation for 8,000 years (nautil.us) submitted 2 years ago by NataliePortland@lemmy.ca to c/til@lemmy.world 104 comments fedilink hide all child comments it's also yummy
[–] twoshoes@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (2 children) The German word for salmon is "Lachs" but it's pronounced "Lax". I wonder who had the word first permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) A couple thousand years ago German and English hadn’t even split off from each other — they were the same language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, English is a Germanic language. The same way Spanish and French are romantic, and derived from Romans. permalink fedilink source parent [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah, it was called Gerlish. At least in Gerlish it was. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago The Italian word for earth is la terra, while in Spanish it's la tierra. Does it make any sense to say that one language had it first? Both are directly from Latin terra. English, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc. all descend from a common ancestor, Proto- Germanic. There's a lot of vocabulary they all inherited from it. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CoggyMcFee@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children) A couple thousand years ago German and English hadn’t even split off from each other — they were the same language. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, English is a Germanic language. The same way Spanish and French are romantic, and derived from Romans. permalink fedilink source parent [–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah, it was called Gerlish. At least in Gerlish it was. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago Yeah, English is a Germanic language. The same way Spanish and French are romantic, and derived from Romans. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago Yeah, it was called Gerlish. At least in Gerlish it was. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Pipoca@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago The Italian word for earth is la terra, while in Spanish it's la tierra. Does it make any sense to say that one language had it first? Both are directly from Latin terra. English, German, Dutch, Swedish, etc. all descend from a common ancestor, Proto- Germanic. There's a lot of vocabulary they all inherited from it. permalink fedilink source parent