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Oh, like German "Fach" then, I assume? That does actually make sense
Yep. Same word, just mutated slightly.
Yeah I feel like 80% of Norwegian is just mutated German.
e.g. Tier --> dyr (animal)
Germanic languages do be like that sometimes
There's also quite a bit of English, eg.
Window -> vindu
Leather (animal skin) -> skinn
That's the other way. English got a lot of words from the vikings.
There is a word for that, it is cognate. When words from different languages stem from the same word