Post #3070480
2025-09-09 22:03 UTC
@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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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2025-09-09 23:52
@yvanspijk@toot.community ok… but how do you come from writing and horse-riding to tearing down something? õÕ