▲ 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
[–] 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