Comment on Justice should be equal
barsoap@lemm.ee 1 year 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 1 year ago
Yes. We are a mushroom people that suddenly popped in to existence and had to borrow some stuff.