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Semantic drift always makes such a mess of cognates. One of my best examples of that is an etymological triplet in Portuguese:
All three were originally the same word with the same meaning. Borrowing here, borrowing there, and now they're three different words with completely different meaning.
A good reference date would be 450 or so, when the Jutes, Angles and Saxons invaded Britannia. It's what created the geographical barrier between Germanic speakers, that allowed English to diverge considerably more from continental varieties (Frisian, Dutch, German "dialects" [actually local languages]) than it could otherwise.
For the French borrowings it's complicated because they didn't enter the language only once as a "nice set", but across centuries. And they weren't from a single Gallo-Romance variety but two (Norman and French).
And often the very fact that they've been borrowed changes the meaning. A good example of that is French ⟨porc⟩ pig, pork; it can be used for both the animal and the meat, but once English borrowed it as ⟨pork⟩ it was mostly used for the meat only, with then the old word ⟨pig⟩ being specialised to the animal.
Thanks!
God bless!
(not that I believe in neither, haha)
But as I was bumbling around to find a quick word-example, I remembered something a friend had told me about the word "fight." I hope people read your comment, because I love it! (it's so much better than my clumsy 'example')
Sorry for the late reply, but I love it!
Excellent, thank you!
So moreso the German split happened around when Roma finally collapsed?
Roughly so. The date is mostly for reference though; you could argue that it happened even earlier, because even as far as 1 AD you already got some dialectal variation. To complicate it further, Standard German is slightly artificial, since it's the result of a written standard shared by speakers of different varieties. So we might as well argue that what's being dated is not the English-German split, but rather the split between English and those varieties that eventually formed German. (With then for example Dutch being the result of one of those varieties [Old Low Franconian] getting its own competing standard.)
But to the point: yes, Rome collapsing is a good reference, and directly tied to that.
Fascinating.
And thank you for for explaining. <3