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Quote:Quote:Faldage: These would also be 'false friends'.
Edit: I did discover this list of some coincidences. Not the entire list from my expired bookmark but enough to make the point.
Coming just across a coincidence it looks like half of our words is the result of some coincidences.
Came across this: Cheyenne: p- poeso- cat; p as in English "spoon" (unaspirated)
Poeso has the exact but for one character spelling as the
Dutch word "poes" (cat), just also like in English "spoon", unaspirated.
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