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• Username@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Funnily there is also the word “Mitgift” (Dowry) that has nothing to do with poison at all.

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• roguetrick@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Same root though. In Dutch it wasn’t differentiated until recently so the same word has vastly different meanings between Afrikaans and Dutch. en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/gifte#Middle_Low_German

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  • samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The word has been used as a euphemism for “poison” since Old High German, a semantic loan from Late Latin dosis (“dose”), from Ancient Greek δόσις (dósis, “gift; dose of medicine”).

    I wondered how the heck it got that meaning. Pretty strange to apply a term for giving something in general to poison specifically.

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