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Old 01-03-2020, 01:33 AM   #84
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Originally Posted by pwalker8 View Post
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.
Hardly surprising since English and German (if I recall properly) had a common ancestry. And other Scandinavian languages added to it via the vikings etc. I would imagine. I understand even in the last few centuries it has changed a lot. There are jokes written into Shakespeare for example that modern readers/playgoers don't get because of the consonant shift as well.
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