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Old 01-02-2020, 09:14 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin View Post
It's probably a "false friend", but I've long assumed there was a connection between the English "dear" in the sense of "expensive" with the German "teuer"
According to OED, you are correct - Old English - Diore, Deore = Old High German tiuro, Middle High German - Tiure, German - teuer.

The spelling start at Diore in 1000 AD, drifting to dere in 1374 (Chaucer), to deere by 1600 eventually becoming dear by 1774.
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