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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? #22984 03/15/2001 11:04 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 46 Tol Eressëa nemo newbie nemo newbie Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 46 Tol Eressëa Did the Grimm brothers have anything to do with codifying the rules you mention? Also, if German has Frage, and Dutch has vraag, what happened to the Englisc equivalent that was displaced by question? I would have thought we might at least have ended up with a Germanic/Romance pair like freedom/liberty, brotherhood/fraternity, that sort of thing. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Share Post on Reddit Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? nemo 03/15/2001 8:34 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Faldage 03/15/2001 9:17 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? nemo 03/15/2001 11:04 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Rouspeteur 03/16/2001 12:31 AM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? AnnaStrophic 03/16/2001 12:32 AM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? wwh 03/16/2001 3:12 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? rodward 03/23/2001 12:09 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Jackie 03/23/2001 12:28 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Bobyoungbalt 03/23/2001 4:03 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? NicholasW 03/16/2001 9:43 AM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Bobyoungbalt 03/16/2001 9:34 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? wow 03/17/2001 6:23 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? wwh 03/17/2001 7:11 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Max Quordlepleen 03/17/2001 7:31 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? Capital Kiwi 03/17/2001 9:19 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? belMarduk 03/17/2001 10:39 PM Re: Romance vs. Germanic: What? Qué? wow 03/17/2001 11:31 PM Cinderella's slippers Sparteye 03/18/2001 4:23 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers Rouspeteur 03/18/2001 1:27 PM Re: Cinderella's slippers Sparteye 03/18/2001 7:04 PM Re: Cinderella's slippers belMarduk 03/19/2001 1:04 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers wwh 03/19/2001 1:22 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers AnnaStrophic 03/19/2001 1:35 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers wwh 03/19/2001 1:45 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers Rouspeteur 03/19/2001 2:02 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers wwh 03/19/2001 2:24 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers Rouspeteur 03/19/2001 3:02 AM Re: Jerry Lewis AnnaStrophic 03/19/2001 6:36 AM Re: Cinderella's slippers ladymoon 03/19/2001 2:27 AM Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. (have been... ------  Words from medicine  Beheading words  Meta-words  Words from classical mythology  Animal Safari  Words with unusual etymologies  Eponyms or words derived from p...  Loanwords from German  English as a global language Print Thread Switch to Flat Mode Show Likes Link Copied to Clipboard View Profile Private Message Follow User Forum Posts Like Summary Forum Statistics Forums16 Topics13,916 Posts230,377 Members9,211 Most Online7,006 Mar 7th, 2026 Newest Members Boo boo kitty fu, peterreineck, Peripatetic Toad, JerryC, blvd 9,211 Registered Users Top Posters(30 Days) wofahulicodoc 36 A C Bowden 16 Top Posters wwh 13,858 Faldage 13,803 Jackie 11,613 wofahulicodoc 11,204 tsuwm 10,542 LukeJavan8 9,974 Buffalo Shrdlu 7,210 AnnaStrophic 6,511 Wordwind 6,296 of troy 5,400

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