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[–] 3 points 6 days ago

They may have. Several Japanese words for everyday objects are taken from other languages despite having earlier words for those things. E.g. bread is pan (from Portuguese) and ball is boru (English).

Though my personal favorite is black hole. Despite having different words for black and hole, black hole is translated as burakkuhoru

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