Funny (or not) matches between you language and English

Parasite03

I'll start:
Russian:
Magazin - shop
Zhurnal - magazine

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Crimsonum · Seth **Joined**: 14 Jul 2005 **Location**: Fineland

Well, the word ultimately comes from Arabic maḵāzin, which means a storehouse. In Finnish there's also "makasiini" which means the same thing. I dunno why in English a magazine is also a kind of tabloid.

This has nothing to do with English, but I've always thought it funny how in Estonian (a finnic language), wedding day is "pulmapäev", when in Finnish "pulma" means "trouble" or "puzzle". So essentially it's "trouble day" #Tongue

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gistop · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 6:38 pm Post subject:

even though english is my primary language, my mom speaks tons of Japanese, however, there are so many words in Japanese that are literally the same as english (pronunciation wise). However,

"Ya" in Japanese means no.