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Lens Etymology (lemm.ee)
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[-] morgunkorn@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[-] Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

Lente for lens and lenteja for lentil in Spanish

[-] fxomt@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days 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?

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