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Court Cantrell does not comply Oct 21

Typed "I'm delighted" in a text to a friend -- and stopped short, looking at the word "delighted."

I used "delighted" to mean that I am pleased, joyful, content, happy.

But delighted. De-lighted.
Wouldn't that mean "darkened"? Illumination removed?

If "de-" indicates that "light" is removed, how does that jive with the emotions of pleased, happy, or content?

Looked up the #etymology.

And voilà.

"light" <-- leoht (#MiddleEnglish) <-- lēoht (#OldEnglish) <-- *leuhtą (#ProtoGermanic)

Lauhaz Nasją Sep 6, 2025

I am ready to reveal groundbreaking news that I'm sure all have been awaiting breathlessly. /hyperbole After nearly three years on this platform, I have finally updated my About section again! Two primary factors motivated the change. I originally based much of it on a #ProtoGermanic persona that I have since used only minimally, largely because I don't really know the language or culture and have to do extensive research if I ever want to post in character.

Matt Hodgkinson Jul 27, 2024

It's an urban myth that the largest per capita producer of bananas in Europe is Iceland, but their ancestors in the Nordic Bronze Age were no stranger to bannaną.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną

#ProtoGermanic #NordicBronzeAge #IndoEuropeanLanguages #Puns #BananaBoats #VikingShips #StoneInscription #Linguistics

Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bannaną - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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Freedom2B Jun 1, 2024

From Middle English store, stoure, storre, from Anglo-Norman stor, estore, estorr, estoer, and Old French estour, estor, from Latin īnstaurō.
From in- +‎ *staurō, from Proto-Indo-European *steh₂u-ro-, from *steh₂-.

From Middle English shoppe, schoppe, from Old English sċoppa (“shed; booth; stall; shop”), from Proto-Germanic *skupp-, *skup- (“barn, shed”), from Proto-Indo-European *skub-, *skup- (“to bend, bow, curve, vault”).

From Proto-Italic *tendō, from Proto-Indo-European *ténd-e-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *tend-, extension of Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, draw”).

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Johan Schalin, PhD Jun 30, 2023

@yvanspijk I’m not sure the as-stems were that productive in the earliest loans at all. Neither trisyllables (trisyllabic stem types were rare in Pre-Finnic).
A Finnic word like ”kuningas” is hardly from #ProtoGermanic, at least not early #PGmc. NW-Germanic yes. In fact I don’t think it even occurs in Gothic (it was reiks!) so NW-Germanic is the probable age of this loan (despite the misinformation in all the handbooks).

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Johan Schalin, PhD Jun 15, 2023

By and large #WestNorse preserves more of #ProtoGermanic than #EastNorse. An exception is the verbal stem gā/*ga- ’go’, which in #OldSwedish was used in the present tense and at times in the infinitive. Else its inflection was suppleted by forms of the verb ”ganga”.
In West Norse ”gá” is attested very sparsely indeed, and instead ”ganga” is used throughout the paradigm.
In past research there was an idea that gā could have been borrowed from #LowGerman, but today this is not deemed probable. 🧵👇🏻