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The English words “wheel” and “rickshaw” are extraordinary cognates (lemmy.sdf.org)
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[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

"Mead/honey" followed basically the exact same path, except for the final borrowing of the Japanese word back into English.

Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > English "mead"
Proto-Indo-European *med^h^u > Tocharian B (not A) "mit" > Old Chinese "mit" > Japanese "hachi-mitsu" (bee-honey)

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

In most slavic languages it's also "Med" or a cognate.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

catalan: mel

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Same as Latin!

[-] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Cool post though I’m not fully onboard with the map implying the modern words came into form in America.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Also the source of the word 'circle'

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