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by k1234567890y
12 Mar 2024 21:25
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

English gorilla v.s. Proto-West Germanic *gurilā "young person"?

Proto-West Germanic *gurilā is the etymology of the English word girl btw
by k1234567890y
07 Feb 2024 12:51
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Finnish hikari ("swot, nerd") v.s. Japanese Hikari/ひかり/光 (female personal name meaning "light")
by k1234567890y
25 Sep 2023 23:22
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Surprising cognates
Replies: 153
Views: 106238

Re: Surprising cognates

Üdj wrote: 19 Sep 2023 14:37 Dothraki erin "to be kind"
Norwegian ire "Irishman"
English penguin (likely, not certain)
This one is truly surprising! Ireland is now a land for penguins xdd
by k1234567890y
25 Sep 2023 20:34
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Also, in Brittany, pigs fly, because they call a magpie “pig”:

English pig v.s. Breton pig “magpie”

Also, in Italy, Pikachus may belong to the flying type:

Italian pica “magpie” v.s. Japanese ピカチュウ(pikachu) “a kind of fictional animal” v.s. English pika and pickup.
by k1234567890y
23 Sep 2023 19:41
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

False friends are a major issue with a posteriori IALs, especially the so-called "naturalistic" ones (such as Occidental or IALA Interlingua), which use "international" Latinesque vocabulary that is "understood by everybody" at least in Europe: quite some of these word...
by k1234567890y
23 Sep 2023 18:01
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Finnish Niko and Japanese にこ

Pre-anime Finnish people might expect Yazawa Nico to be a male if they only saw her name xdd

Also

Serbo-Croatian -ko (suffix for male names) v.s. Japanese -子(-ko) (suffix for female names)
by k1234567890y
09 Aug 2023 01:17
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

* Georgian კაკაბი [kʼakʼabi] "patridge"
* Maori kākāpō [kaːkaːpɔː] "kakapo"
both words are used to indicate types of birds, though different types
by k1234567890y
02 Mar 2023 16:59
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

English dairy and Proto-Slavic *dojiti "to milk" (cf. Polish doić "to milk")

They have similar sounds and are semantically related, but etymologically they are from different PIE roots.
by k1234567890y
12 Feb 2023 23:16
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Surprising cognates
Replies: 153
Views: 106238

Re: Surprising cognates

borrowed from Turkic, which is in turned borrowed from Chinese. In the opposite Direction: :vie: thiên /tʰiən/"Heaven [used only in compounds]" :mon: тэнгэр /tʰeŋ.ɡer/ "Sky; Heaven; Weather" PrTurkic *teŋri "Heaven; Tengri >(borrowed via Xiongnu) Old :zho: 撐犁 *ṭhāŋ-rə̄>Late...
by k1234567890y
11 Feb 2023 01:24
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Japanese やま/山 [ja̠ma̠] "mountain" v.s. Czech jáma [ˈjaːma] "pit, hole"
by k1234567890y
11 Feb 2023 00:13
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

Italian lieve "light, delicate, gentle, slight, minor, mild (punishment, sentence)" and Finnish lievä "mild, slight, moderate"
by k1234567890y
05 Feb 2023 16:16
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: -ect and -igible
Replies: 2
Views: 1234

Re: -ect and -igible

1. I don't think these rules are productive in English, for example, we have collect -> collectible instead of **colligible ; besides, we have neglectable and correctable alongside with negligible and corrigible . 2. Note that all the four words are ultimately from Latin, and all of them are formed ...
by k1234567890y
04 Feb 2023 17:45
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Czech and Slovak dav [ˈdaf] "crowd, mob" v.s. White Hmong dav [da˧˦] "lonely; cheerless(of a house)"

Yes the pronounciations are different, and the final consonants in the orthography of Hmong-Mien languages often indicate tones, but I still want to post this lol
by k1234567890y
16 Nov 2022 14:48
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

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sorry for double posting, but I just found this:

In Aramaic, the root ש־כ־ח (sh-k-h) means “to find”; while in Hebrew, the same root ש־כ־ח (sh-k-h) means “to fotget”.
by k1234567890y
08 Nov 2022 20:17
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Surprising cognates
Replies: 153
Views: 106238

Re: Surprising cognates

Chinese 珍珠 (Middle Chinese pronounciation: /ʈˠiɪn t͡ɕɨo/) "pearl" v.s. Hungarian gyöngy "pearl"

The Hungarian word is borrowed from Turkic, which is in turned borrowed from Chinese.
by k1234567890y
08 Nov 2022 15:59
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

@Sequor nice (: however, there's at least one pair of word that might be true cognates: 馬 mǎ 'horse' English mare < Proto-Germanic *marhijō The Proto Germanic *marhijō is from Proto-Germanic *marhaz , which in turn from Proto-Indo-European *márkos , and the Proto-Indo-European word might be from a w...
by k1234567890y
08 Nov 2022 07:07
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

more:

Chinese /tʰaɪ̯³⁵/ "tower; lookout; stage; platform; support; stand; base; etc." v.s. English dais
by k1234567890y
08 Nov 2022 00:47
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 274771

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Japanese / koi "romantic love" v.s. Finnish koi "cancer"
by k1234567890y
05 Nov 2022 17:20
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

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...
by k1234567890y
04 Nov 2022 19:21
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 324938

Re: False cognates

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