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Besettan mearcungeLatest comment: 12 years ago by PiRSquared17 in topic About 142.151.163.108's change "ongan" to "begann" because "begann" "is bastard new English"
About 142.151.163.108's change "ongan" to "begann" because "begann" "is bastard new English"
[adihtan fruman]No it's not a "bastard word". It is one of the historically English elements that survived in New English from Old English. They ("begann" and "ongan") are "true" Old English words - not borrowings (though the g's are a borrowing from Latin; so are the a's, the b, the o and the n's, actually). 
Ƿes hāl! 
04:45, 7 Gēolmōnaþ 2010 (UTC)
- The verb "beginnan" is a real Old English word, but it was rarer than the verb onginnan. PiRSquared17 (talk) 19:41, 23 Se Æfterra Gēola 2013 (UTC)