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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I appreciate the use of forlorn, which stems from Dutch verloren (lost, abandoned).

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[–] jxk 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is a pet peeve of mine, but no. All three words forlorn (English), verloren (Dutch), and verloren (German) have the same origin, but none derive from another.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

If I remember correctly, words that are basically linguistic cousins are called cognates

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