Comment on Justice should be equal
barsoap@lemm.ee 10 hours agoValta also sounds like a Germanic loan just a second… yep. Same root as German “Gewalt”, violence, “walten”, to rule, preside, also English wield.
What’s it with Finnish. One third borrowed from Estonian, another third from the Swedes, the rest from the Sami.
random_character_a@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Yes. We are a mushroom people that suddenly popped in to existence and had to borrow some stuff.