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[โ€“] Microw@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Poles got a germanic word when German didnt lol

[โ€“] Successful_Try543@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

East-Germanic languages, as e.g. the Gothic language, were spoken in todays Poland between the rivers Oder and Vistula and are a different (and extinct) branch of the Germanic languages than West-Germanic (German, Dutch, Frisian, English) or North-Germanic (Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese).