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laika-the-bitch:
in an interesting case of linguistic convergent evolution, the english words scale, scale, and scale are all false cognates of each other

laika-the-bitch:
scale as in “to climb" comes from the latin scala, for ladder.
scale as in the measuring device comes from the old norse skal, for a drinking vessel sometimes used as a weighing device
scale as in the dermal plating on the skin of some fish and reptiles comes from the old french escale, for shell or husk.

datasoong47:
The second and third are actually related, although they entered English through different paths. Both =are from Proto-Germanic
*skald, the Old French having been a loan word from either Old Frankish or Old High German
The native English cognate of those two is shale.

linguisticparadox:
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