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minus-squarejanNatanlinkfedilinkarrow-up92·8 months agoNobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.” You may now resume your laughter.
minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoYes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·8 months agoIt includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-squarejanNatanlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-28 months agoWonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.”
You may now resume your laughter.
Yes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
It includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
I wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
Maybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
Wonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
So it was thorn
All along!
What was German thinking??
Die Bart! Die!