• @Mouselemming
    link
    61 month 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.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      21 month 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