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Dutch on der weg, 'on the way.'
I like how the Dutch preposition on and the definite article der got reanlysed as the English preposition under (whichis cognate with the English (via Latin) words inferior, infernal, &c., < PIE *̣ndhos).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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