There are actually a lot of Germanic cognates in Scandinavian languages, yes. I'm reverse engineering - usually people start with something like German, then one of the modern Nordic languages like Danish or Norwegian, *then* Icelandic if they get that far, and I went totally ass-backwards with Icelandic first, then Norwegian. 😂 And while Icelandic is closer to Old Norse than it is to the modern Scandinavian languages, there are still enough cognates where I was like "hey, I know that word, it's just spelled a little differently" in my Norwegian lessons. 😁
But the Latin influence is pretty interesting. And I actually didn't know "w" and "y" are verbs in Welsh! But then, I know next to nothing about Welsh except a lot of "ll" and "w".
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Date: 2020-07-31 08:10 am (UTC)There are actually a lot of Germanic cognates in Scandinavian languages, yes. I'm reverse engineering - usually people start with something like German, then one of the modern Nordic languages like Danish or Norwegian, *then* Icelandic if they get that far, and I went totally ass-backwards with Icelandic first, then Norwegian. 😂 And while Icelandic is closer to Old Norse than it is to the modern Scandinavian languages, there are still enough cognates where I was like "hey, I know that word, it's just spelled a little differently" in my Norwegian lessons. 😁
But the Latin influence is pretty interesting. And I actually didn't know "w" and "y" are verbs in Welsh! But then, I know next to nothing about Welsh except a lot of "ll" and "w".