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Lens Etymology (lemm.ee)
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[-] 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?

this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2025
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