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Old Wed Oct 24, 2007, 08:50pm
Mark Dexter Mark Dexter is offline
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Originally Posted by Nevadaref
According to the scholars German is not a Romance language -- meaning derived from Latin, such as Italian and Spanish. Germanic is its own branch, and English is said to come from that.
Agreed.

Fenster and fenestra just happen to be similar.
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