How likely are chance resemblances between languages? (2002)

Post by Findecanor » Thu, Mar 07, 2024, 8:45 PM UTC

Findecanor wrote: post #52

TillE wrote: post #8

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My favorite little coincidence is that ending a sentence in "ne" turns it into a question in both Japanese and colloquial German, with exactly the same sense ("isn't it?").

I've noticed a similar similarity between the particle "yo" in Japanese and adverb "ju" in Swedish, both used for the same purpose at the end of sentences.

A few more: Swedish:"tabberas"(eat everything) from Latin:"tabula rasa"(clean slate) Japanese: "taberu"(eat).

Swedish:"må" Japanese:"mo". "allowed to" Pronounced the same.

Expression: Swedish:"det går inte"(not possible, not allowed to), literally "that does not go" Japanese:"ikemasen"(not allowed to), literally "can not go".

Post by xdavidliu » Sun, Mar 10, 2024, 9:37 PM UTC

gfaure wrote: post #50

bradrn wrote: post #49

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Consulting Wiktionary, it lists several words for ‘aunt’ in Mandarin: depending on the precise relation, it can be gūmǔ , bómǔ , shúmǔ , yímǔ , jiùmǔ , plus some other dialectal synonyms. None of these sound anything like ‘ah-yi’.

This is clearly referring to 阿姨, which is a vocative term of address for an aunt (in particular, on the mother's side). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E9%98%BF%E5%A7%A8

I don't know many pieces by Faure, but do listen to a lot of Violin, and one of my favorites is Fileuse "Spinning Song"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxg9jmvZOlM

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