>Herr Etymology
From Middle High German [Term?], from Old High German hēriro, hērro (“grey, grey-haired”), the comparative form of hēr (“noble, venerable”) (by analogy with Latin senior (“elder”)), from Proto-Germanic *hairaz (“grey”). Cognate with Dutch heer, Swedish herre, Old English hār, English hoar, Old Norse hárr, compare also modern German hehr (“noble, holy”), herrschen (“to rule”).
When I began to learn a bit about the proto-indo-european language, the “master” language of almost everyone in Europe and much of Asia, spoken by a group of people known as the Aryans, it became clear to me what the Nazis were talking about, and that they were as Germans, descendents of the Aryans. They may not have had all the anthropology correct but they were not far off the mark. PIE is a “super” language, an ancestor language and the Aryans were the ancestor race, the parent race. It wasn’t a fucking assertion of superiority
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