• samus12345@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The Proto-Germanic words these both derived from are hwar (where) and hwas (who). English clearly stayed closer to hwar, but both neither English nor German kept close to hwas.

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      1 year ago

      You could actually argue English might have stayed close to hwas if you consider starting a question about someone with “who was…?”

      Apparently words just kinda break bits and pieces off each other some times