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==False cognates used in the coinage of new words== The coincidental similarity between false cognates can sometimes be used in the creation of new words ([[Neologism|neologization]]). For example, the Hebrew word '''{{lang|he|ืึทึผื}}''' ''dal'' ("poor") (which is a false cognate of the phono-semantically similar English word ''dull'') is used in the new [[Israeli Hebrew]] expression ืืื ืจืืข ืื ''en rega dal'' (literally "There is no '''poor''' moment") as a [[phono-semantic matching]] for the English expression ''Never a '''dull''' moment''.<ref>Page 91 of {{cite book|last=Zuckermann|first=Ghil'ad|author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann|year=2003|title=[[Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew]]|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]]|isbn=9781403917232}}</ref> Similarly, the Hebrew word ืืืืื ''dibรบv'' ("speech, inducing someone to speak"), which is a false cognate of (and thus etymologically unrelated to) the phono-semantically similar English word ''dubbing'', is then used in the Israeli phono-semantic matching for ''dubbing''. The result is that in Modern Hebrew, ืืืืื ''dibรบv'' means "dubbing".<ref>Page 96 of {{cite book|last=Zuckermann|first=Ghil'ad|author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann|year=2020|title=[[Revivalistics: From the Genesis of Israeli to Language Reclamation in Australia and Beyond]]|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|location=New York|isbn=9780199812790}}</ref>
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