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  • morgunkorn
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    12 hours ago

    interesting! French uses the same word for both, “lentille”, and German too, “Linse”

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      11 hours ago

      Huh. weirdly enough, lens and linse both have unknown roots (old church slavonic too). They could be from a PIE root, or a complete coincidence.

      Who knew lentils are so weird?