/cog/ - Cognate general

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There are some false friends in cognates too!

For example, in Spanish "constipado" means you have a cold. For the english term "constipated" we have "atascado" (jammed) or "cagarría".

In Spanish "embarazoso" means "embarassing", but "embarazada" means pregnant.

>>76795653
Only for Russian(Kazakh is absolutely different):

brother - brat
sister - sestra
milk - moloko
meat - mjaso
mint - mjata
cheek - ščeka
yellow - žoltyj
mother - mat'
cow - korova
water - voda
tree - derevo
son - syn
daughter - doč'
night - noč'
day - den'
sleep - spat'
sun - solnce
beat - bit'
fart - perdet'
pussy - pizda
beard - boroda
eye - oko
lie - lgat'
love - ljubit'
media - meždu
three - tri
two - dva
etc.

>>76795653
>ñ
must be because of the palatalization of 'g' before 'n' and finally coalescing

/gn/ -> /jn/ -> /ɲ/

notice how 'gn' is also pronounced as /ɲ/ in French and Italian

pregnante (IT) - pregnant (EN) - preñante (ES)

new - nov(yj)
path - put'
will - velet'(volja)
man - mužčina

>>76796153
it sounds nothing like "gn"
in reeality it started as a way to shorten words from latin in scripts
Anno - Año
Domina - Doña
it ended up developing its own sound

>>76796380
that's language for ya.

http://telefinn.blogspot.fi/p/false-friends.html

"porta" should be "portaat" I think

>>76796593
porta means door in portuguese / old spanish (probably italian too)

>>76795653
Telephone - Telefon
Television - Televizia
Anime - Anime
Internet - Internet

Apart from an enormous amount of Chinese loanwords. We have a few cognates with Khmer (much more with other Vietic languages, but information about them are rare, much like Finnish/Estonian vs the other Finnic languages), for examples, con (child), cháu (grandchild), này (this), and the numberals.

>>76795653
Hokkei
Zubnoi vrach (dantist)
Shokolad
Slovar
Slon
Znak? Harakter? Bukva?
Mezhdunarodniy
Chastichniy
Semeiniy

Some off the top of my head:
naam - name
ghaas - grass
kaat - cut
naya - new