A-Z of words in any language but English

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19 Jan 2016, 11:26 pm

faíscas ('sparks')

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20 Jan 2016, 11:00 am

है (hai). Hindi for is.

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Imponert (Norwegian for impressed)

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21 Jan 2016, 2:29 am

镜子 jingzi (mirror)

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21 Jan 2016, 4:26 pm

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Yigeren wrote:

镜子 jingzi (mirror)

Hah, I find it funny how close that sounds to yingzi, the name of these characters: If English was written like Chinese.

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22 Jan 2016, 2:16 pm

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22 Jan 2016, 2:34 pm

Spiderpig wrote:

Hah, I find it funny how close that sounds to yingzi, the name of these characters: If English was written like Chinese.

欧元 Ōuyuán ( the Euro)

Well, that's interesting.英语 Yīngyǔ is spoken English.英文 Yīngwén is the English language in general. The ending is probably 子 , which originally meant child, and is used as a suffix in Chinese now. So it makes sense.

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