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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink97•9 months agoNobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.” You may now resume your laughter.
minus-square@Striderlink11•9 months agoYes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
minus-squareIninewCrowlinkfedilinkEnglish7•9 months agoIt includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink5•9 months agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-squareBoblinkfedilink3•edit-29 months agoWonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.”
You may now resume your laughter.
Heh… German dick is thick 😎
note to self: visit Germany soon
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Yes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
It includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
I wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
Maybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
Wonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
So it was thorn
All along!
What was German thinking??
Die Bart! Die!