Thread:User talk:Rua/Truncating West Frisian etymologies/reply (3)

It doesn't. You have to think about how many times you're going to have to copy that information, and that each copy has to be kept in sync with all the others. That's why duplication should be avoided. In any case, I consider a borrowing a more significant node in the history of word than mere inheritance. Inheritance basically means "nothing special happened, it just kept existing". That's why I don't find the Middle Dutch form important enough to warrant duplication.