Re: Pseudo-cognates?


Snis Pilbor wrote:

Is there a special word for the event when two languages share a word,
but only by sheer coincidence, NOT necessarily because of common
heritage? And are there many examples where this occurs? How about
when a similar word takes opposite meaning, for example Japanese "ya"
("no")?

Also, Albanian 'jo' (no).

Japanes NO (iiya, ie, iie, ieie)
Jap. YES (hai, iiya, iya)

My Japanese dictionary must be wrong! (-;

DV

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