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		vidarh on April 30, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Uncleftish Beholding: English minus the non-German... But "ordinär" in modern German comes from French "ordinaire", which comes from Latin.

schoen on April 30, 2014 [–]

And Kluge agrees with my intuition that modern German "Rest" also comes from Latin (restare, 'to remain').

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