• Mouselemming
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • Nutteman@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      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