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Hace 4 días · Don't be fooled by false friends! 😈 Learn about "cognates" - words that look similar in English and Spanish but have different meanings. 🤓 Improve your voc...
Hace 3 días · Cases where a single l nevertheless occurs in both American and British English include null→annul, annulment; till→until (although some prefer til to reflect the single l in until, sometimes using a leading apostrophe (' til); this should be considered a hypercorrection as till predates the use of until); and others where the connection is not clear or the monosyllabic cognate is not in ...
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Hace 1 día · English gets the word "masterpiece" from its Dutch (or possibly German) cognate. In those languages, though, it has a slightly more specific meaning that, ironically, can serve to counter the sort of genius-oriented mythmaking behind calling some particular work "a masterpiece" in modern English.
great question, and it’s an interesting story. i remember reading that when ‘māt’ passed into arabic, it was interpreted as ‘māta,’ meaning ‘to die’ in arabic, and is unrelated to castilian ‘matar’. persian ‘māt’ means stunned, and is, according to some scholars, cognate with english ‘meal’ and ‘measure’. according to watkins, however, it is related to arabic ...
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