| ▲ | thomassmith65 5 hours ago | |
It surely is; 'fest' is the Swedish word for 'party'. I actually think Swedish or Norwegian (which are practically the same language) are closer to English than even Dutch. Many of the most common, short English words are the same. | ||
| ▲ | rob74 43 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | |
"Fest" is also German for celebration - but just because several Germanic languages have the same word doesn't mean that it's a Germanic word. Actually all of them got it from Latin... | ||
| ▲ | Hemospectrum 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The Anglo-Saxon migrations made England English, and then the waves of Viking invasions littered North Germanic vocabulary all over it. You can see it in doublets like skirt/shirt that aren't in other West Germanic languages. | ||