• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    Valta also sounds like a Germanic loan just a second… yep. Same root as German “Gewalt”, violence, “walten”, to rule, preside, “verwalten”, to administer, also English wield.

    What’s it with Finnish. One third borrowed from Estonian, another third from the Swedes, the rest from the Sami.