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 No.1566

Hey let's have a thread for this.

Basically everything is welcome;

false cognates (words in different languages that look like they could easily be cognates, but knowing the actual etymology tells you they aren't)

distant cognates (I'm saying distant because the interesting part here is where a word travels to the other side of the continent)

false friends (words that are either homophones or close homophones in two languages, but have wildly different meanings — but sometimes they may be true cognates and differ in meaning due to semantic drift)

pic related, cognates like that (or fucking ananas) aren't interesting and therefore not welcome

 No.1567

fuck almost forgot to give an example to start this thread

Hindi श्री (śrī), a honorific

English sir, a honorific

>श्री is an older Sanskrit word, but ī is already a vowel there and ri in Hindi isn't from Sanskrit vocalic , in Sanskrit it is an adjective form of श्रीः śrīḥ which is an abstract term meaning "splendour, prosperity, radiance, …"

>sir (in rhotic dialects pronounced with a "vocalic r") is a contraction of French seigneur, ultimately from Latin senior "older/elder", a comparative of senex "old"


 No.1568

FAGGOT - fagotto (eng. bundle)


 No.1570

The most retarded false cognates between spanish and english:

El limón - Lime

La lima - Lemon


 No.1571

>>1568

They have the same etymological root my fine pasta friend.


 No.1579

>>1570

haha




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