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by gphilip 4435 days ago
"der Rest" is German, and so is "ordinär".
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vidarh 4435 days ago
But "ordinär" in modern German comes from French "ordinaire", which comes from Latin.
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schoen 4434 days ago
And Kluge agrees with my intuition that modern German "Rest" also comes from Latin (restare, 'to remain').
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