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[–] 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I think the word drink was originally only an action, until someone started to refer to all drinkable items as "drinks" and the language adapted.

A similar thing is happening now, as people call things that can be eaten, "eats". So you can " eat an eat"

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago*

    Other way around actually and blame the French for it.

    If you look at the German word "trinken" and "Getränk" one means to drink and the other a drink, but they clearly evolved from each other. The word for food "essen" means both food and to eat.

    Honestly a lot of English words around food and animals split from other Germanic languages because of French

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