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<p>[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 316021, member: 2844"]Maybe from Middle English originally? Middle English is more closely related to Dutch than present day English. </p><p>Dutch is the oldest Germanic language, it remained pretty close to archaic Germanic, the root of all Germanic languages, including English. We're just stick in the muds, I guess.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Any Jewelry, post: 316021, member: 2844"]Maybe from Middle English originally? Middle English is more closely related to Dutch than present day English. Dutch is the oldest Germanic language, it remained pretty close to archaic Germanic, the root of all Germanic languages, including English. We're just stick in the muds, I guess.;)[/QUOTE]
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