
Episode 4: A Grimm Brother Resurrects the Dead (…language)
The History of English Podcast
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The Germanic Derivation of Romance Words
All of those words which meant head, or having to do with the head, all come from a latin word that meant head. So there is a very clear difference between the germanic derived english word and the latin derived romance words. It may not appear that those words have anything in mon but in fact, all of those words meaning what are cognate. The word chief comes from that word. And the word shef, meaning the head of chen, comes from the same word corporal,. Which was originally caporal, meant the head of troops. Other words include mischief, literally meaning a bad head, as in something being brought to a bad head.
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