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2026-04-29 16:50 UTC
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The early Germanic cognates of ‘king’ were borrowed into the Finnic and Slavic languages, becoming Finnish ‘kuningas’ (king), Polish ‘ksiądz’ (priest), Serbo-Croatian ‘knez’ (prince) and many others.
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@chicob@mstdn.social 2026-05-01 09:52
@yvanspijk What exactly does "reconstructed" mean? Is it a missing link deducted by linguistics?