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Originally Posted by mores
since german is also a roman language I would very much think that "fenster" is a derivative of "fenestra".
it's funny how english uses a lot of words that do not hint to any latin background.
"window" - "fenestra"  |
Isn't this partly a product of repeated invasion and conquest (from about the 5th century up to and including the Norman conquest) bringing the Norman language and Anglo-Saxon languages with words of West and Norse/North Germanic origin?
...or something like that?
Cheers,
Marc