Re: Funny words

Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> 2003.01.08. 15:34:02-kor írta:

> > Do any of you have this kind of humorous word similarities in your
> conlangs?
Well, not in my conlangs, but I can tell there are lots of examples in written
Hungarian and many european languages:
is (meaning "too"), a (article), rom ("ruin"), est ("evening"), hall ("hears"),
hang ("sound"), alma ("apple"), por ("dust"), mi ("what" or "we"),

but also in spoken language:
lúd (poultry) = germ. lud (praet. laden), vár ("castle") = germ. war (praet.
sein), bár ("though"; also "bar" but that's only derived), szín [si:n]


But no longer words, and certainly they have nothing to do with each other.
        Balazs

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May Heaven give you its grace!

Balazs Sudar <conlang@...>

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