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[–] Erika3sis@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Norwegian fаg (subject, discipline, etc) is cognate with English fack (sense: rumen) and Fach (method of classifying opera singers' voices), all from Proto-West Germanic *fak (division, compartment, period, interval), which is speculated to come from the PIE root *peh₂ǵ- (attach, fix, fasten) which also gives us words as diverse as fang, fast, propaganda, hapax and peace.

Å slutte (to end, stop, quit etc) from Low German sluten from Proto-Germanic *sleutaną (to bolt, lock, shut, close) which is where we get the word slot (sense: broad, flat wooden bar for securing a door or window) from. Believably from the PIE root *(s)kleh₁w- (hook, cross, peg; to close something) whence also words like close, clavicle, cloister and claustrophobia.

This being said, slutt datafаg is not really a normal way to say "graduate computer science". To me it reads more like commanding someone to "quit computer science!", more like dropping out than graduating, right? A more normal phrasing in my eyes might be, I dunno, å fullføre utdanningen sin i datafаg, "to complete one's education in computer science".

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

For completeness sake there's Low Saxon "Slunt", note the n, meaning "rag" as well as "disorderly, dirty person". If you want to use it call a woman promiscuous have the decency to use the diminutive. Not related to German "Schlund", gullet, that'd be Slunk. I can't find any proper etymology but my guess would be that English lost the "n" at some point.

Funnier are words like Gröönhöker. That's the same roots as "green" and "hooker" but it's not what you think, it's someone who can hook you up with the green stuff, a greengrocer. Or the perfectly cromulent toponym Quickborn meaning "lively spring".