krinkle, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) @simevidas From Wiktionary: > voice, from [..] Old French (voiz). Displaced native [..] Old English (stefn) [..] "stefn" came from Proto-Germanic stebnō, and would eventuelly become German "Stimme". The same root entered English as "steven", and is still used in the idiom "even steven" (to have an equal voice/vote). vote/voice share no root, but English does have "say" which can mean vote (I have no say in this, I have an equal say on the matter). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice #linguistics
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From Wiktionary: > voice, from [..] Old French (voiz). Displaced native [..] Old English (stefn) [..]
"stefn" came from Proto-Germanic stebnō, and would eventuelly become German "Stimme".
The same root entered English as "steven", and is still used in the idiom "even steven" (to have an equal voice/vote).
vote/voice share no root, but English does have "say" which can mean vote (I have no say in this, I have an equal say on the matter).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/voice
#linguistics
krinkle