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Chinese 蘿蔔 /lwɔ³⁵ b̥wɔ³/ v.s. Proto-Germanic *rōbǭ (cf. Standard German Rübe Swedish ruva ) Would you mind giving glosses? Most of us have no idea what the Chinese word even means. Chinese 蘿蔔 means "radish" and is also used in words indicating "carrot"; also 蘿蔔 itself does not s...

Chinese 蘿蔔 /lwɔ³⁵ b̥wɔ³/ v.s. Proto-Germanic *rōbǭ (cf. Standard German Rübe Swedish ruva)

Arabic وَسَط‎ (wasaṭ) "middle, centre, waist" / Egyptian Arabic وسط‎ (weṣṭ) "middle, centre, waist"

English waist

English stall and stable (noun.) The former is ultimately from PIE *stel- ; the latter is ultimately from PIE *steh₂- ; however, it is possible that *stel- is a root extension of *steh₂- , if *stel- is a root extension of *steh₂- , the the English words will be true cognates, though a pretty distan...

English stall and stable (noun.) The former is ultimately from PIE *stel- ; the latter is ultimately from PIE *steh₂- ; however, it is possible that *stel- is a root extension of *steh₂- , if *stel- is a root extension of *steh₂- , the the English words will be true cognates, though a pretty distant...

Kankonian has reached 80,000 words ! Wow, that's really impressive Thanks. [<3] Although don't forget, your Urban Basanawa makes this list as well. right btw the Urban Basanawa has been renamed as Town Speech, because the old name "Urban Basanawa" is hard to justify for in-world historica...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑10 Jul 2022 01:54 Kankonian has reached 80,000 words!

Wow, that's really impressive

I already have ideas: one of them is a girl that was caught by alien cyborgs and converted into one of them before her birth, but she ran away and tried to fight against those alien cyborgs

takan /ta'kan/ -- an adjective diminished, shortened Next: ɴ̯ʏɴα (human approximation /d̼ɯ̞dã/) - verb/noun connected with water v. to cry(tears) I am not sure if this fits your needs, alternatively v. to, wash, bathe, ablute n. bath, laundry, ablution or v. to swim, float next: s-h-d verb/noun con...

Ancient Egyptian dšrt (deshret) "Red One" v.s. English desert

Remark: Deshret is an Ancient Egyptian word used to indicate the desert area outside of "kemet", the fertile Nile river basin

Of those 22... four , nearly 20%, are words for pointy sticks (posts, spikes, spears, etc)! And all four begin with sC-clusters. [from the other direction: 4 out of 12 u-stems with initial sC clusters are words for pointy sticks!] This seems way too much to be a coincidence! But it also doesn't see...

The word for "frost" in Germanic and Slavic languages are more consistent, in that there are usually cognates with similar concepts in closely related languages; while there's no such consistency in Romance languages.

Japanese 俺 [o̞ɾe̞] "I, me(masculine)" v.s. Guarani ore /oˈɾe/ "we(exclusive), our"

Gutnish päiku "girl" v.s. Swedish pojke "boy"

Not sure if they are cognates though

Also

Gutnish sårken "boy" v.s. Manchu sargan "woman, wife"

English pork
Maori poaka "pig, pork"

Romanian grămadă "mass, heap, pile, multitude, lot of something" v.s. Portuguese gramado "lawn"

Japanese なこま/猫 /ne̞ko̞ma̠/ "cat(archaic form)" v.s. Bambara jakuma "cat"

Finnish fani "fan" v.s. Faroese fani "devil"

but well, fans can sometimes be devilish to their idols lol

Latin Gallia "Gaul" v.s. French Gaule "Gaul" Fucking hell. And to add to that: Irish/English: Gall vs Gaul vs Gael . 'gall' is an Irish word for a foreigner; with the capital letter, a 'Gall' is usually specifically a Dane or an Englishman, the two groups of people the Irish bel...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑12 Jun 2021 23:28

k1234567890y wrote: ↑12 Jun 2021 03:50 English Wales, Gaul, Walloon, Wallachia

Also Cornwall.

yeah you are right