Re: What was special about WHITE to Germanic language speakers?

Peter T. Daniels (in sci.lang):

On Jun 28, 7:11 am, "PaulJK" <paul.kr...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

So give us then, if you please, an example of a pair of false
friends which are true cognates. One example will do.
Good luck!

Eng. gift, Ger. Gift.

Eng. knave, Ger. Knabe.


My gut estimate is that the majority of the German-English False Friends are
cognates.

Joachim

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