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minus-squarejanNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up92·9 months agoNobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.” You may now resume your laughter.
minus-squareStrider@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoYes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
minus-squaredeegeese@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoI wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
minus-squarejanNatan@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·9 months agoMaybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
minus-squareBob@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-29 months agoWonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·9 months agoHeh… German dick is thick 😎
minus-squareDharma Curious@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·9 months agonote to self: visit Germany soon
minus-squareIninewCrow@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·9 months agoIt includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
Nobody asked, but if anybody is curious: “dick” is the German word for “thick.”
You may now resume your laughter.
Yes indeed. Upon seeing this thread I thought I need to add the information you added, but going from dick to thick does absolutely not improve the situation.
What was German thinking??
I wonder if it was spelled with an eth “ð” in old English and medieval German?
Maybe. But in modern German, the ‘th’ sound makes a hard T, not a hard… Oh, nevermind.
Wonder no longer: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
So it was thorn
Heh… German dick is thick 😎
note to self: visit Germany soon
It includes some poultry parts … which means it may have dick and cock
Die Bart! Die!