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gpvos 10 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Loss of Mid in English: Free Peasantry and Their L...

The modern German cognates are wider (against) and wieder (again, back), the common ancestor word being withra. The English Wiktionary is a great etymological dictionary.

User23 10 months ago [–]

I would say gegen for against. But yeah noch mal wieder is definitely in my lexicon.

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