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For questions on the history of grammar, orthography, pronunciation and similar – with the main exception of word and phrase meanings, for which the etymology tag should be used.
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Origin of "Toll jemandem sein" [closed]
What is the origin of "Toll jemande* sein". For example "wenn du toll mir bist" in this song.
https://youtu.be/CK5MdsewTjM
(Can someone please help me embed it? (Lol, what's that supposed to mean i …
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Origin of "zu wehen" and relation to "att vina" in swedish?
I read at Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wehen
that in proto-germanic there is the word *wēaną which I suspect (Well, I don't know for sure as I don't know any live Proto-Germanic speaker) …
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Usage of "sei" in old and modern german?
I have noticed in both commercial folk music as well as older texts it seems very often that constructions with "sei" (alter sein/ist?) are being frequently used. Meanwhile I have almost never seen it …
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Origin of the word "Abenteuer"?
The other night for one reason or another, I started thinking about the word "Abenteuer", (eng: adventure).
I saw how close "Abenteuer" is to the words "Abend" (evening) and "teuer" (expensive).
I …
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