XPost: alt.usage.english, soc.culture.german   
   From: naddy@mips.inka.de   
      
   On 2024-09-15, Helmut Richter  wrote:   
      
   > In German, it is "hierher". Up to now, I would not have regarded the   
   > second syllable of "hither" as a cognate of German "her".   
      
   And judging from the etymologies given by Pfeifer (at DWDS.de) and   
   Wiktionary, they are not cognate.   
      
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