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Reblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
yvanspijk@toot.community ("Yoïn van Spijk") wrote:
'Lord' stems from Proto-Germanic *hlaibawardaz: "bread guardian".
This compound consists of two words:
- *hlaibaz, the ancestor of 'loaf'.
- *wardaz, which meant "guardian" and became English 'ward'.Hear how over the course of 2500 years, its four syllables turned into one: