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To: DMaA who wrote (4658)	8/6/2022 2:34:25 PM
From: spitsong	of 4710

Really fun video! One thing I neglected to mention in my previous post about Norman / French influences on the English language is the term "Norman" itself: Nord-man = North-man -> Norman This seems a bit odd when you consider that Normandy, from which the Normans invaded England, is south of England. But the Normans who invaded England were effectively assimilated Vikings who spoke French, albeit their own dialect(s). So they looked and acted like Vikings, but at some level were French. Old English, Old German, and Old Norse are considered fraternal languages for good reason, and the truth is that all three peoples, plus the Celts (a word derived from what the Greeks called them; the Romans called them Gauls -- Greek and Latin are also Indo-European languages) all originated from the same places south and east of western Europe, speaking Indo-European.

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