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How do you say age in your language?
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In Plattdeutsch, it's Johr ik bün veerten Johr oold
I (be) am 14 years old?
https://www.etymonline.com/word/be
Might as well be a Dutch dialect at this point haha. It's funny how the platt/plat dialects are kinda similar.
It did originate in the "low" countries around the Netherlands and Germany. The Mennonites took it with them when they left the Netherlands in the 1500s and it traveled with them to Prussia, then to Ukraine, and then to the Americas. I imagine it changes a little during those 500 years.