re: #196 wheat-dogg

I poked around the online Merriam-Webster dictionary. Both black and swart (later swarthy) come to English from Old High German. I reckon the original words had different uses and diverged when English and German went their separate ways.

lots of examples of that. I recall the nativity scene from Luke: “And they were sore afraid!”.

sore? as in hurt? turns out not

In German, the word sehr means “very”