WeepingElf wrote: ↑16 Jan 2019 13:20
Shemtov wrote: ↑15 Jan 2019 22:40

Douche "Shower"

Douche. Can't believe that wasn't mentioned before
And
Dusche goes with the French.
There are two near-homphones in

that belong with this entry. I'm not sure if they're false-friends, foul-weather friends, or finicky-friends, but here goes.
The first is
душ [duʂ] which comes from

douche "shower" and means the same.
But then there's
дощ [dɔʃt͡ʃ] which comes from an entirely different, entirely Slavic root
*dъždžь, and means "rain".
In my humble estimation, to just about any

native-speaker, these would prolly be not-so-close homophones.
However, my baba and grand-uncles and great-cousins who spoke

pronounced "rain", as far as I could tell, as
дош [dɔʂ], bringing the word even closer to a homophone with
душ shower.
In fact, for years I erroneously just supposed that my Uke ancestors borrowed the word from the
douche, like so many other lang-communities, and melded it to their own purposes.
I was pleasantly surprised that there is an actual honest-to-goodness Slavic root
*dъždžь for
дощ "rain". Intriguingly, it's related to
Skt.
दुर्दिन (durdina, “rain, shower”), Ancient Greek
εὐδία (eudía, “fair weather”), whch is just plain really neat in my book.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstr ... 5%BE%D1%8C
OMG, and then there's
душа́ [du'ʂa] "soul, spirit" (common w/

and other Slavic Langs)
![o.O [o.O]](./images/smilies/icon_eh.png)