Ok, “fart” is where English gets “fare”, that makes sense I guess. Is that coincidentally where English gets “far”? Otherwise I’d think it’s closer to where we get “wide”. Like weit gefahren?
English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to classify it as a strictly “Germanic” language.
There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).
I guess this is where we get “haste”?
and “fart” is where you get “fare”, as in to travel. or rather, we both got them from german.
Ok, “fart” is where English gets “fare”, that makes sense I guess. Is that coincidentally where English gets “far”? Otherwise I’d think it’s closer to where we get “wide”. Like weit gefahren?
It’d be more accurate to say they share the same origin. Swedish and English are both part of the Germanic language family.
English has a lot of influence from both Germanic and Latin, to the point where I don’t think it’s reasonable to classify it as a strictly “Germanic” language.
There are plenty of English words that can be traced to old Norse (i.e. Norwegian Viking occupiers, raiders, and/or traders).
Linguists disagree with you.