What's the difference between a "false cognate" and a "false friend"?
Sep 24, 2012 · False recent cognates that are true cognates more distantly. Example: Malay nama 'name' might look like a loanword from English name (Malaya was a British colony), but it is actually …
english - Is “actual” both a false friend and a cognate? - Linguistics ...
Dec 2, 2023 · Yes, like many false friends, they are true cognates. From the Wiktionary definition of cognate English embarrassed is a true cognate of Spanish embarazada but is a false friend because …
Are false cognates something languages tend to create?
Aug 14, 2020 · It could easily be my own bias but I feel like false cognates are suspiciously common. Do similar meanings tend to acquire similar sounds in language evolution? Have there been any studies …
etymology - Why are similar words for father/mother across different ...
Mar 18, 2025 · 0 It is very easy to find online claims of similar words for mama/papa in different languages being false cognates (e.g. this Wikipedia page), along with hypotheses why those …
Is there any resource about "exceptional" examples of false cognates ...
Jul 16, 2017 · As an amateur I lack information about specialized resources for linguists. What I’m looking for is a list of stunning examples of false cognates in any discipline, that can be either exact …
cognates - Are ~simba (Bantu) and ~simha (Indic) related? - Linguistics ...
Nov 5, 2017 · Does Swahili (and hence cognates of other Bantu languages) simba have any relation to सिंह (~singh or ~simha in Hindi and Sanskrit respectively according to Wiktionary, please correct …
Similar words in different languages with different meanings
Jun 23, 2016 · If two words are etymologically unrelated, but have a similar form and meaning, they are called false cognates, but this is only for related meanings. If two words have the same form and …
Is there a term for words which falsely appear to be related ...
Apr 1, 2016 · 5 Just wanted to clarify things. False cognates are words that exhibit chance similarity (or chance resemblance). The phenomenon is known as chance similarity, or chance resemblance. …
Finnish and Hungarian loanword cognates? - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Jun 22, 2024 · Just to be clear, you’re looking for words that Finnic (so Finnish, Estonian, Ingrian, Karelian, etc.) have borrowed from Germanic, where Hungarian has borrowed a cognate word from …
Newest 'origin-of-language' Questions - Linguistics Stack Exchange
Why are similar words for father/mother across different languages considered false cognates? It is very easy to find online claims of similar words for mama/papa in different languages being false cognates …