True false friends

[vijayjohn]

to cheat
ചീറ്റുക [ˈt͡ʃiːtuga] - to blow (especially your nose)

[IpseDixit]

vociferar - to shout
vociferare - to rumor

[IpseDixit]

basura - garbage
vassoura - broom

I'm reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix in Portuguese and some characters were talking about escaping using vassoura, and I was like "oh ok, they're going to hide in a garbage truck or something, a bit weird for Harry Potter but ok". Then the next page they were flying on "garbage" so I decided that maybe I should look that word up in a dictionary.

[linguoboy]

Really, Danish?

frokost lunch
frokost breakfast
/ frukost breakfast

[Ser]

Spaniard Spanish boquete "hole on a wall/shoe/tire, narrow entrance to a cave, illegal hole in a prison for escaping from it"
Brazilian Portuguese boquete "blowjob (oral sex)"

[langmon]

Really, Danish?

frokost lunch
frokost breakfast
/ frukost breakfast

Just interested: why "really, DA?", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?

[linguoboy]

Really, Danish?

frokost lunch
frokost breakfast
/ frukost breakfast

Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?

Because German.

[langmon]

vociferar - to shout
vociferare - to rumor

Both taken from (LAT) vox, voice. And both convey the idea of (literally translated from ES) "giving voice".

Del lat. vociferāre, de vox, vocis 'voz' y ferre 'llevar'.

1. tr. Manifestar ligera y jactanciosamente algo.

2. intr. Vocear o dar grandes voces.

[langmon]

Really, Danish?

frokost lunch
frokost breakfast
/ frukost breakfast

Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?

Because German.

You know, I do consider you one of the more advanced linguists in this forum. But why are you giving a non-answer [*] right now?

[*] As in: something that either says nothing, or is too riddle-ish to many.

[linguoboy]

Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?

Because German.

You know, I do consider you one of the more advanced linguists in this forum. But why are you giving a non-answer [*] right now?

Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?

All three languages borrowed the term from Middle Low German vrōkost (cf. Modern Low Saxon Fröhkost), which is obviously parallel to Standard German Frühstück. So "breakfast" is the original meaning and Danish has innovated by shifting the meaning to "lunch".

[langmon]

Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?

Well, what I personally would do is to either postpone it, or not to reply at all maybe .

All three languages borrowed the term from Middle Low German vrōkost (cf. Modern Low Saxon Fröhkost), which is obviously parallel to Standard German Frühstück.

Middle Low German and Modern Low Saxon - now this is much more understandable to me.

[linguoboy]

Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?

Well, what I personally would do is to either postpone it, or not to reply at all maybe.

Good for you?

Middle Low German and Modern Low Saxon - now this is much more understandable to me.

Glad I could help.

[Car]

Just interested: why "really, Danish", and not "really, SV/NO-NB/NO-NN"?

Because German.

You know, I do consider you one of the more advanced linguists in this forum. But why are you giving a non-answer [*] right now?

Because I didn't have time for a fuller one?

All three languages borrowed the term from Middle Low German vrōkost (cf. Modern Low Saxon Fröhkost), which is obviously parallel to Standard German Frühstück. So "breakfast" is the original meaning and Danish has innovated by shifting the meaning to "lunch".

Norwegian ended up shifting one meaning of "middag" from lunch to dinner, so it's not just Danish that was innovative there.

[linguoboy]

Norwegian ended up shifting one meaning of "middag" from lunch to dinner, so it's not just Danish that was innovative there.

It may be more accurate to say that middag always meant "dinner" and that in Norway (as in the USA), dinner (i.e. the main meal of the day) shifted from being a midday meal to being an evening one.

[Car]

Norwegian ended up shifting one meaning of "middag" from lunch to dinner, so it's not just Danish that was innovative there.

It may be more accurate to say that middag always meant "dinner" and that in Norway (as in the USA), dinner (i.e. the main meal of the day) shifted from being a midday meal to being an evening one.

Fair enough, except that middag also means midday or noon to this day.

[Ser]

Mandarin 老二 lao3er4 'penis'
Cantonese 老二 lou5yi6*2 'cop, policeman'

[linguoboy]

kous stocking
kous sock
kous sock, condom

[Dormouse559]

faire chanter qqn v. phr. - blackmail sb
make sb sing v. phr. - make sb confess

These phrases are both the same on a literal level, and since they both appear in the context of crime/illicit activity, it can be a bit confusing for me to come across the French.

[Luís]

ammazzare to kill, to murder
amassar to knead

[IpseDixit]

ammazzare to kill, to murder
amassar to knead

There's also ammassare - to accumulate