Substantivisation of lateral .
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WORD DOSSIERS
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 12
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Does Freund derive from modern Freude?
No. The reviewed ancestry runs through vriunt and friunt to the Germanic love or favor verb family. Modern Freude is not inserted as its parent.
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Is English fiend descended from Gothic fijands?
No. English fiend continues Old English fēond; Gothic fijands is a collateral Germanic cousin. Both meet at reconstructed *fi(j)and-.
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Is Swedish fiende formed from modern hata?
No. The fi(j)- verb family behind fiende is distinct from the hat- family behind Swedish hata.
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Did Gothic fijands mean devil or evil spirit?
The reviewed Gothic noun inventory centers on enemy and regularly translates Greek echthros. Old English feónd developed or preserved devil senses, but that collateral history cannot be projected backward onto every Gothic occurrence.
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Is English fiend descended from Gothic fijands?
No. English fiend continues Old English feónd; Gothic fijands is a collateral Germanic cousin from the same reconstructed formation, not the donor of the English word.
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Was English fiend borrowed from Danish fjende?
No. They are collateral inherited continuations; English specialized the demonic branch much more strongly.
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Was fjándi borrowed from English fiend or German Feind?
No. The words are collateral inherited continuations of the Proto-Germanic lexicalized enemy formation.
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Do Frigg, Friday, Frederick, and Siegfried descend from the noun friend?
No. American Heritage places them in related Germanic formations under the wider *frī- family; they are collateral relatives, not descendants of English friend.
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Is English fiend descended from Gothic fijands?
No. English fiend continues Old English fēond; Gothic fijands is a collateral Germanic cousin. Both meet at the reconstructed *fi(j)and- formation.
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Was fīant borrowed from Gothic, Old English, Dutch, or Norse?
No borrowing is established. The daughter forms are collateral inherited continuations of the reconstructed Germanic enemy formation.
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Was fīunt borrowed from German, Gothic, English, Frisian, or Norse?
No borrowing is established. The daughter nouns are collateral inherited descendants of the reconstructed Germanic formation.
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Was Old Norse hatr borrowed from English hate or German Hass?
No such borrowing is established. The historical dictionaries list collateral Germanic forms, and Koch connects them through a reconstructed Germanic noun.
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German Feind is English fiend’s undemonic cousin: both fossilize one who hates.
Duden, DWDS/Pfeifer, and Grimm independently carry Feind through Middle and Old High German to a substantivized hating participle. OED places English fiend on the collateral Old English branch. German retained the ordinary enemy or opponent at its semantic center; English turned the cognate toward Devil, demon, and vicious person.
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