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minus-squareMouselemminglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoLooks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus” And lose is from Old English, “los” Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
minus-squareNutteman@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 months agoFrom my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english
Looks like loose is from Germanic/Old Norse, “laus”
And lose is from Old English, “los”
Also looks like I can’t stand to look at either of these words for a few day now.
From my tiny amount of research eventually it passed through the Dutch layer and ended up as “loose” from those origin points before being adopted into english