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by LAC-Tech 906 days ago
Indeed, it's the same word! In the ancestor language of both English and German (and also Dutch, Low German, and many others) it's been reconstructed as "þū".
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amelius 906 days ago
What is the ancestor language, and how do you pronounce þū?
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pvg 905 days ago
proto-West Germanic by current thinking (at least, by Wikipedia)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germanic_languages#Validi...

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