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Post #3070479

2025-09-09 21:58 UTC

@yvanspijk@toot.community ah, and *h₁reip- also became (ab-)reißen in German?

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  • @yvanspijk@toot.community 2025-09-09 22:03

    @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org That verb has a different origin: it's a merger of Proto-Germanic *wrītanan (whence English 'to write') and *hrītanan (whence Dutch 'rijten'), both of which are unrelated to *h1reip-.

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