Timeline for Etymology of "Je... desto.."
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| Nov 8, 2023 at 11:58 | comment | added | sumelic | "je" isn't loaned from Latin aeōn (which was borrowed from Greek αἰών)--it's just cognate to it. See An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 6:19 | comment | added | RDBury | DWDS mentions that "desto" imitates Latin, even though it roots are actually Germanic. Also, DWDS doesn't mention Latin in the etymology of "je", but to me "je" sounds just as German as anything else. A similar phrase is "je ... umso:, but that's not really a mystery; "umso" is just a compound of "um" and "so". | |
| Nov 8, 2023 at 1:44 | history | answered | Janka | CC BY-SA 4.0 |