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I Saw this rather interesting discussion today about the old english
words néotan and brúcan, both with a history far more interesting than
I first thought. Brook (brúcan) is alive and fairly well today, that is
clear but at least one of the members of this forum seems to be having
an idea about neat being in part from the old english néotan. I agree
with him. Although great many things have been done in english
etymology I believe there have been some great deal of sloppyness and
wishful thinking as well. To have the word stun culled from its
germanic cognates is really bad, in my opinion. But that´s another
story. If the link doesn´t work please let me know.
Carl Hult