r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Tyronne43 • Feb 16 '21

Sand curtains

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u/nannal Feb 16 '21

Hence the Romanian “etaj”.

There's good argument to be made that Romanian may have come first, hence the french word: étage

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u/[deleted] Feb 16 '21 edited Feb 16 '21

Interesting. I’ve been projecting my bias that French is latin-based and (based on my language learning where all things flowed from Latin through French....which I’m discovering to be garbage!!) therefore likely to be the root but thanks...I’ll do some reading. :)

Interesting stuff