But don't they both come from the same Slavic word?Dr. House wrote:[flag=]hu[/flag] munka - work
[flag=]ro[/flag] muncă - work
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But don't they both come from the same Slavic word?Dr. House wrote:[flag=]hu[/flag] munka - work
[flag=]ro[/flag] muncă - work
This thread always confuses me.vijayjohn wrote:Maybe, but then a lot of the other true friends in this thread are related, too.
Levike wrote:'Cause in that case we could put every international word here, like "internet" or "history".
vijayjohn wrote:Levike wrote:'Cause in that case we could put every international word here, like "internet" or "history".
"History" is not an international word.
Levike wrote:Could someone please define what a "true friend" is supposed to be?
Aleco wrote:How about words across languages that aren't too closely related, yet have the same, or close to the same meaning? (Or languages where words have evolved differently, but ended up as the same?) These would often be onomatopoeia probably, but not necessarily.
Levike wrote:Yeah, I read that.
But did he mean that the languages shouldn't be related or the words?
linguoboy wrote:[flag=]ca[/flag] net clean
[flag=]en[/flag] neat
It never occurred to me that these might actually be related, but both descend from Latin nitidus "clean" (although the form and use of the English term were apparently influenced by a descendent of PGmc *nautiz "useful").
PEMbl wrote:Also some less obvious ones, but which are still similar enough to call them friends, similar enough to help remember the word:
[flag=]ru[/flag]Пароль - Parol' (password)
[flag=]us[/flag]Password
vijayjohn wrote:PEMbl wrote:[flag=]ru[/flag]Пароль - Parol' (password)
[flag=]us[/flag]Password
I don't see anything particularly similar about these two words; it's just that they both happen to begin with the same two letters (provided they're written in the same script, of course).
Levike wrote:vijayjohn wrote:PEMbl wrote:[flag=]ru[/flag]Пароль - Parol' (password)
[flag=]us[/flag]Password
I don't see anything particularly similar about these two words; it's just that they both happen to begin with the same two letters (provided they're written in the same script, of course).
That's more than enough.
Levike wrote:Well, that was enough for 9-10 year old me to think they are related.
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