Reposted by @vriullop.bsky.social
Sometimes, borrowing a word can save it from extinction.
French ‘orgueil’ (pride) was borrowed from Germanic *uʀgōlī, which went extinct in all Germanic languages.
*Haifstiz (vehemence) didn’t survive in West Germanic, but French gave us its borrowing ‘haste’.
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