Sugam Pokharel (@psugam): "Not Germanic but one of my favourite linguistic tidbit is that Proto-Indo-Iranian *aryas "Aryan" was likely borrowed by Proto-Uralic to mean slave, which the descendant word still means in Finnish."

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Not Germanic but one of my favourite linguistic tidbit is that Proto-Indo-Iranian *aryas "Aryan" was likely borrowed by Proto-Uralic to mean slave, which the descendant word still means in Finnish.

Danny Bate, Wanderer in Language History

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