| Comment | It perhaps helps if you understand that Scots, which is where many such words come from, is not derived from modern English, but that both modern English and Scots evolved seperately from Middle English - a language spoken across much of Britain from around the 12th to 15th centuries.
And in Middle English the word 'frae' meant 'from', which in turn came from the Norse 'fra'.
So the evolution of 'fra' to 'frae' to 'fae' is fairly obvious, it's English that is weird for having 'from', which is to do with Germanic roots. |
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