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I’m not explaining this one to the kids. Someone else can.

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scrion@lemmy.world
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Absolutely correct. Lady stems from bread-kneader, in fact: https://www.etymonline.com/word/lord

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Nougat@fedia.io
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I’m going to go with Kevin Stroud of The History of the English Language Podcast on that one.

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scrion@lemmy.world
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I can’t tell if you are implying any disagreement, so I’ll just add that the Proto-Germanic origin for the second half of lady (hlǽfdige) definitely stems from kneading: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/daigijǭ

Other than that, sounds like an interesting podcast!

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It’s fantastic, I just re-listened to the whole thing.

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