Timeline for Is there a relationship between the words "night" and "eight"?
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| Dec 20, 2018 at 19:39 | comment | added | Chloe | @bobbib Unlikely as I stripped the EXIF manually and rotated it manually with XnView as well then re-uploaded it. It didn't work either way. Unless the rotate operation in XnView was using EXIF... | |
| Dec 20, 2018 at 1:24 | comment | added | bobbib | @Chloe, perhaps the image hosting service doesn't support the EXIF (JPEG) orientation tag, probably used in your photo. | |
| Dec 15, 2018 at 1:32 | history | edited | Chloe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
added photo documentation for dagr meaning day
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| Nov 23, 2018 at 18:02 | comment | added | Janus Bahs Jacquet | This answer is factually incorrect in pretty much every aspect. Night and day in English are completely separate from their Old Norse forms. They were not borrowed, nor inherited, nor in any other way influenced by the Old Norse forms; they developed quite independently within English. This is quite easily seen from the facts that (a) night retains its ⟨gh⟩ which was written as ⟨ch⟩ (and pronounced!) long after Old Norse, and (b) day was written with ⟨æ⟩ for centuries, a letter not used to represent ON /a/. Dagr borrowed into OE would probably have yielded *daw instead. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 9:07 | comment | added | Schmuddi | No, it's just wrong to say that English borrowed night from Old Norse. In basically all West Germanic languages (such as English, Dutch and German) as well as North Germanic languages (such as Swedish or Danish) the word has descended from the same prehistoric Germanic root *nakht. The relation between the Old English word for night and the Old Norse one is as best as close as that between you and your niece.The same is also true for day and the words for compass directions. Really, please get your facts right – this can easily checked with any etymological dictionary. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 4:17 | comment | added | Chloe |
OK You could say night is a loanword from old Norse, just like the days of the week and compass directions.
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| Nov 22, 2018 at 1:28 | comment | added | Schmuddi | Your last sentence is either badly worded or just plainly wrong. First, Old Norse is not a particularly old language; Old English is at least 200 years older. Second, both languages are Germanic languages, but belong to different branches (West and North Germanic, respectively). Third, while Old Norse did have an influence on Old English when there were Scandinavian settlers in England during the 9th (and partly 10th) century, it's completely misleading to claim that English is derived in any way from Old Norse. In particular, night is of West Germanic origin, and not derived via Old Norse. | |
| Nov 22, 2018 at 0:06 | history | answered | Chloe | CC BY-SA 4.0 |