Open main menu
Home
Random
Recent changes
Special pages
Community portal
Preferences
About Wikipedia
Disclaimers
Incubator escapee wiki
Search
User menu
Talk
Dark mode
Contributions
Create account
Log in
Editing
False cognate
(section)
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
=== Between other languages === {|class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Term 1 ! Etymology 1 ! Term 2 ! Etymology 2 |- | French '''''feu''''' ("fire") || Latin ''focus'' ||German '''''Feuer''''' ("fire") |[[Proto-Germanic|PGmc]] [[wikt:Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fōr|'''''*fōr''''' ~ '''''*fun-''''']]<ref name="dhegh"/><ref>[[Lyle Campbell]], Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, 3rd edition, p. 355</ref><ref name="Glossary"/>{{br}}<< PIE *''péh₂wr̥'' |- | French '''''nuque''''' ('nape') ||Latin ''nucha'', from Arabic نُخَاع ''nukhāʻ'' 'spinal marrow' || Hungarian '''''nyak''''' ('neck')<ref name="Barczi">{{cite book|first=Géza|last=Bárczi|year=1958|title=A magyar szókincs eredete|location=Budapest|publisher=Tankönyvkiadó|page=8}}</ref> || Proto-Uralic ''*ńᴕkkɜ'' 'neck' |- | German '''''haben''''' ('to have') || PG *''habjaną''{{br}}<< PIE *''keh₂p-'' ("to grasp") || Latin '''''habere''''' ("to have") and descendants<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=have|title=have - Search Online Etymology Dictionary|website=www.etymonline.com}}</ref> || PIE *''gʰeh₁bʰ-'' ("to grab, to take") |- | Swedish '''''göl''''' ("pool") || PG *''guljō'' || Salar '''''göl''''' ("pool") || Proto-Turkic *''kȫl'' ("lake") |- | German '''''Erdbeere''''' ('strawberry') || ''Erd'' ('earth') + ''Beere'' ('berry') || Hungarian '''''eper''''' ('strawberry')<ref name=Barczi/> || |- | German '''''Haus''''' ('house')|| || Hungarian '''''ház''''' ('house')<ref name=Barczi/> || |- | Hawaiian '''''kahuna''''' ('priest')|| || Hebrew '''כוהן''' (''kohen'') ('priest')<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hevesi|first=Francis|title=Kahuna and kohen: A study in comparative religion|volume=16|journal=Social Process in Hawaii|pages=30–33}}</ref> || |- | Hungarian '''''nő''''' ('woman') || || Mandarin Chinese '''女''' (''nǚ'') ('woman')<ref name=Barczi/> || |- | [[Inuktitut]] '''ᖃᔭᖅ''' (''[[kayak]]'') || [[Proto-Eskimo]] *''qyaq'' || [[Turkish language|Turkish]] '''''[[Caïque|kayık]]''''' ('small boat')<ref>{{cite journal|first=José Andrés Alonso|last=de la Fuente|title=Urban legends: Turkish kayık 'boat' {{!}} "Eskimo" Qayaq 'Kayak'|journal=Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis|year=2010|url=http://www.filg.uj.edu.pl/documents/41616/4333148/12701-Fuente.pdf|access-date=2015-03-06}}</ref> || [[Old Turkic]] kayguk {{br}}<< [[Proto-Turkic]] kay- ("to slide, to turn") |- | [[Mayaimi]] '''Mayaimi''' (''Big water'') || || [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]] '''מים''' mayim ("water") || |- | Japanese '''{{lang|ja|ありがとう}}''' ''[[Glossary of Japanese words of Portuguese origin#Arigatō|arigatō]]'' ("thank you") || Clipping of 有難う御座います "arigatō gozaimasu" ("(I) am thankful") {{br}}<< 有難く "arigataku"{{br}}<< 有難い "arigatai" ("thankful, appreciated") {{br}}<< [[Old Japanese]] 有難斯 "arigatasi" ("difficult to be"){{thin space}}{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} || Portuguese '''''obrigado''''' ("thank you")<ref>{{cite news |title='Arigato in Japanese and Obrigado in Portuguese', Semantic Enigmas |url=https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,,-197840,00.html |access-date=June 24, 2021 |work=The Guardian}}</ref>|| Literally "obliged"{{br}} << Latin ''obligātus'' |- | [[Hindustani language|Hindustani]] '''अम्मा''' / '''{{nq|اما}}''' (''ammā'', "mother") | [[Prakrit]] 𑀅𑀁𑀫𑀸 (''aṃmā''), from [[Sanskrit]] {{lang|sa|अम्बा}} ({{Transliteration|sa|ambā}}, "mother, feminine honorific") | [[Tamil language|Tamil]] '''அம்மா''' (''ammā'', "mother") | [[Proto-Dravidian]] ''*amma'' ("mother") |- | [[Indonesian language|Indonesian]] '''''tanah''''' ("ground") | [[Proto-Austronesian]] ''*tanaq'' | [[Aleut language|Aleut]] '''''tanax̂''''' ("ground") | [[Proto-Eskimo]] ''*luna'' ("earth") |- | [[Tagalog language|Tagalog]] '''''bagay''''' ("thing") | [[Proto-Malayo-Polynesian]] *''bagay'' | [[Haitian Creole]] '''''bagay''''' ("thing") | [[Saint Dominican Creole French]] ''bagage'' |- | [[Central Dusun|Dusun]] '''''do''''' ("of") | Austronesian ''o'' | Portuguese '''''do''''' ("of") | Latin ''de'' |- | [[Spanish language|Spanish]] '''''gusano''''' ("worm, insect larva") | Uncertain, possibly from Latin ''cossus'' ("woodworm") | [[Russian language|Russian]] '''''гусеница''''' (''gusenica'') ("caterpillar") | [[Proto-Slavic]] ''*ǫsěnica'' ("caterpillar") |}
Edit summary
(Briefly describe your changes)
By publishing changes, you agree to the
Terms of Use
, and you irrevocably agree to release your contribution under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 License
and the
GFDL
. You agree that a hyperlink or URL is sufficient attribution under the Creative Commons license.
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)