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    4 days ago

    German is not the same as Germanic. Both German and English evolved from a common ancestor, which we call Proto-Germanic.

    ‘Who’ and ‘Where’ are ‘*hwaz’ and ‘*hwar’ in Proto-Germanic.

    I would say that in this case German strayed more than English.