[louisdefunes]

Some errors:

"to give rise to the rest": "rest" is latin

"ordinary waterstuff": "ordinary" is latin too.

[glyxbaer]

See "Herkunft":

ordinär, from french and latin: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/ordinaer

Rest, as in reminder, from german, italian, latin: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Rest

Rast, as in break, from german: http://www.duden.de/rechtschreibung/Rast

[mathieuh]

"Rest" as in take a break from something is Germanic, "rest" as in remainder is Latin, they probably got mixed up.

[SilasX]

"Rest" is used to mean "remainder" is German as well. It was quite a surprise in class to read the line "Wo ist der Rest?" ... and find out it was legit German.

[rodgerd]

Latin was used in England prior to the arrival of the Normans; the Roman invasion, pre-German Celtic Christianity, and then the reconversion to Catholicism.

[gphilip]

"der Rest" is German, and so is "ordinär".

[vidarh]

But "ordinär" in modern German comes from French "ordinaire", which comes from Latin.

[schoen]

And Kluge agrees with my intuition that modern German "Rest" also comes from Latin (restare, 'to remain').