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minus-squarekralk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up14·7 months agoDreich is a Scots word. Skein is too but I think it’s borrowed from Gaelic.
minus-squarechemical_cutthroat@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·7 months agoZarf is Arabic, and plash is Dutch.
minus-squareFleppensteyn@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoOld English plæsc. Possibly cognate of, but not borrowed from Dutch plas (puddle)
minus-squareDr. Bob@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months agoI thought Scots is a Gaelic language. Am I missing something?
minus-squareTempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 months agoScots is close enough to English that some scholars say it’s a dialect and others say it’s it’s own language. A while back, a teenager wrote many of the articles on the Scots Wikipedia thinking it was just an accented English. It was a mess.
minus-squarekralk@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoNo, the two languages have separate roots. Gaelic is often called Scots Gaelic to distinguish it from Irish, though.
Dreich is a Scots word. Skein is too but I think it’s borrowed from Gaelic.
Zarf is Arabic, and plash is Dutch.
Old English plæsc. Possibly cognate of, but not borrowed from Dutch plas (puddle)
I thought Scots is a Gaelic language. Am I missing something?
Scots is close enough to English that some scholars say it’s a dialect and others say it’s it’s own language.
A while back, a teenager wrote many of the articles on the Scots Wikipedia thinking it was just an accented English. It was a mess.
No, the two languages have separate roots. Gaelic is often called Scots Gaelic to distinguish it from Irish, though.