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Hebrew הִשְׁתַּמֵּשׁ [hištaméš] 'to use' is a causative of שִׁמֵּשׁ [šiméš] 'to serve', hence שַׁמָּשׁ [šamáš] 'servant', from

Венгерское *kedd* 'вторник' происходит (как и по русской логике) от *két* 'два'. Турецкое *salı*, тоже означающее 'вторник', восходит к числу 'три'. *Jumanne* на суахили – неизменно обозначающее

Lithuanian *nepaisant* means 'irrespective', a rendering faithfully reflecting the word morphology, including the root *pais-* 'to pay attention'. Since abstract concepts do not exist in human

Английское *handle*, французское *manier* и венгерское *kezelni* единогласно обозначают 'обращаться с чем-либо'. Они и единодушно восходят к слову 'рука': англ. *hand*, франц. *main* и венг. *kéz*

Mentre gli altri giorni della settimana islandese rappresentano (come in italiano) un pianeta (ad es. *mánudagur* 'lunedì' – letteralmente 'giorno della luna') od un'attività (ad es. *laugardagur*

Le point commun entre l'arabe جمعة [žúmu^ca] 'vendredi', l'arménien շաբաթ [šabát^h] 'samedi' et le géorgien კვირა [k'víra] 'dimanche' est que tous les trois

All Slavonic languages call Sunday *nedělja* '(the) idle (day)' (< *ne* 'no'; *dělo* 'business'), except Russian, which refers to the day as *воскресенье* [voskresēnĭe] '(

Το στόμα του στοματολόγου, η καρδιά του καρδιολόγου και το πόδι του ποδολόγου δεν έχουν καμία σχέση με τη ψυχή του ψυχίατρου ή με το πνεύμα

'But the tongue can no man tame' – goes the above Aramaic biblical verse, including the interesting ܕܢܟܒܫܝܘܗܝ [dnekbšiyūhī], which literally means 'that he subdue it', from

El húngaro *látogat* 'visitar' se compone de dos partes: *lát* 'ver' y *-ogat*, sufijo frecuentativo, lo que ayuda mejor a ver la morfología del latín **vis*

L'arabe َأَعْرَب [á^craba] 'exprimer' – de عربي [^cárabī] 'arabe', – le polonais *wysłowić się* 's'exprimer' – de *słowo* 'parole', parent de *Słowianin* 'slave'

Gli ungari dicono *viszont**lát**ásra*, i cechi *na s**hled**anou*, gli ebrei להת**רא**ות [lehit**ra'**ōt], i polacchi do **zobacz**enija, i

Die germanischen Stämme sprachen nicht: sie *sprengten* – krachten, äußerten, drückten Laute aus. Das deutsche *sprechen* ist nur durch das schwedische *spräcka* 'brechen' zu verstehen, genauso wie

Удивительный язык китайцев не перестает нам открывать глаза на истоки человеческого мышления, благодаря не только своей поразительной логике, но и своему ни с чем не сравнимому

Les tchèques (entre autres peuples slaves) disent *jdeme nahoru* '[nous] allons sur[la]montagne' lorsqu'ils montent au deuxième étage et *jsme dole* '[nous] sommes

If Latin *septimana* ‘week’ has given, among other languages, Romanian *săptămână*, Italian *settimana* and Spanish/ Portuguese *semana* (based on the root *septem* 'seven', whence French *sept*

En euskera, 'ley' se dice *lege*, préstamo antiguo del latín que revela la [g] original, conservada en castellano a través de palabras cultas, tales como *legal*

*Gēn péngyǒu kāichē qù* en chinois veut dire 'aller en voiture avec un ami', interprétation simpliste ne reflétant pas les détails d'une action en trois temps,

Independientemente de su significado latino original de 'mercancía', *merced* - que en castellano antiguo significaba 'gracia' - se encuentra en este sentido no sólo a través

'Слуга' в венгерском – *szolga* [solga]. Слово заимствовано из славянского с перестановкой звуков первого слога, поскольку финно-угорские языки – к которым принадлежит венгерский – не терпят сочетания двух согласных

Dutch *slachtoffer* (cf. Afrikaans *slagoffer*) is composed of *slacht* ‘slaughter’ and *offer* ‘sacrifice’. One may expect the word to denote an animal sacrifice, but it doesn’

Chinese *Zhōngguórén yòng kuàizi chīfàn* – literally, 'China-people use chopsticks eat-rice' - has one single meaning: 'The Chinese eat with chopsticks'. The fact that there is no

While Aramaic ܨܚܘܐ [ṣaḥwa] and Arabic صحو [ṣaḥw] both denote a 'clear sky', Tigrinya ጸሓይ [ṣäḥay] points directly to the 'Sun', which, besides صحو [ṣaḥw], explains

L'italiano è una lingua che sempre cerca di esprimere il mondo a suo modo. È l'unico idioma che abbia creato il discorso, sebbene latino, dell'*inquinamento*

From a Chinese viewpoint, the concept of food has for millennia been indivisibly associated with the region's most ancient cultivated staple – rice. In Chinese, 我要吃饭 *wŏ

While both English *hail* 'to greet' and German *heil* 'safe' go back to a common Germanic root with the latter meaning (whence Eng. *heal*, *whole*, *holy*

Nonobstant les tentatives acharnées d'effacer à jamais les traces du machisme dans le langage humain, des mots anglais tels que manpower 'effectifs', manmade 'd'origine

В древнерусском языке *видóк* обозначало 'очевидец, свидетель', т. е. человек воочию узревший происшествие. В отличие от *видок* и *очевидец*, однако, *свидетель* связано не с *видеть*, а

*Monkey* has no traces in Germanic languages, which all share the same root with English *ape*: German *Affe*, Dutch *aap*, Icelandic *api*, Norwegian *ape*, Swedish *apa*

В литовском языке существует слово, которое единолично свидетельствует о земледельческих корнях балтийского общества. *Nepaisant* обозначает, точь-в-точь, 'несмотря': *ne-* выражает отрицание, а деепричастная форма *paisant* происходит от

Greek θέατρον [θéatron] – which, via Old French, has yielded English *theatre* – was originally pronounced with an aspirated initial sound: [t^héatron]. The Romans, who later

*vyrauti* es un verbo lituano que significa 'prevalecer'. La palabra proviene del sustantivo *vyras* [vīras] 'hombre' (en contraste con 'mujer'), hermano uterino del sanscrito वीर

Au moment où 'mère' en breton se dit *mamm* et 'ma mère' *ma mamm*, 'ta mère' se dit *da vamm*. Alors que 'père' est *tad*, 'mon

At a time the Germans call themselves *Deutsch* (people, who, consequently, speak a *deutlich*, i.e. 'articulate', language), speakers of Slavonic languages refer to them as

En lituano, 'pernoctar' se dice *pernakvoti*. Aunque consanguínea con el latín, la palabra no es derivada ni prestada de este último, pues el lituano es una

Alles deutet darauf hin, dass die Bedeutung des deutschen Wortes *deutbar* so deutlich ist, dass diese unzweideutige Andeutung keine weitere Verdeutlichung bedürft.

Ist das eindeutig genug?

Les macédoniens l'appellent *misirka* '[poule] d'Egypte', alors que les égyptiens se réfèrent à lui comme *roumi* '[coq] de Grèce'. Les malais le nomment *(ayam)

Man kann ein bisschen Brot, ein bisschen Butter... aber ein bisschen Milch? Kann man Milch beißen?! Im Gegensatz zur Milch kann man Geld sicherlich beißen. Schmeckt

Latin *scio* 'I know' - which had long ago disappeared off the face of the Earth, leaving behind the precious concept of *science* - has survived

*Je fais, je peux, je comprends... Hago, puedo, entiendo... I do, I can, I understand... Делаю, могу, понимаю*... أفعل، أقدر، أفهم. *Fac* 'je fais' dénote à

Lithuanian *pasaulis* - literally 'under the sun' - means 'world' in the world's most archaic Indo-European language, whose speakers have been Europe's last farming nation to

The major virtue one acquires from the study of human language is humility through wisdom. Yet, the first lesson human language teaches us is that abstract

Greek αφύπνιση [afípnisi] 'awakening' consists of two main components: prefix αφ- [af-] - a softened form of από [apó] 'from' - and ὕπνος [húpnos] 'sleep', which,

Και τ' όνομά σου αθάνατο! 'And your immortal name'! is the way the poet in the second segment is invoking the Mother of European Cities, Athens.

The word to the left is Dutch and means 'slaughterhouse'; its root is *slacht-* [slaxt-] 'slaughter'. To the right is the German sibling of that word.

Czech *strč prst skrz krk* means 'stick your finger through your throat', while *vlk zmrzl, zhltl hrst zrn* just indicates that the 'wolf has frozen, gulped

Es esperable que un jabalí baje de vez en cuando de la montaña para pasearse; lo inesperado es el modo en que lo mismo se dice

Hebrew חמדה [xemdá] 'precious (thing)' stems from חמד [xēmed] 'grace', cognate with Arabic حَمْد [ḥamd] 'praise', whence َحَمِد [ḥamida] 'to praise'

Besides its sibling, Afrikaans, and cousin, Danish, Dutch is the only language that possesses an ingeniously simple way of expressing emphasis graphically: it places the acute

When scholars set out to investigate the common root of the word, which in the earliest Indo-European language would have meant ‘people’, they reconstructed the following

Los franceses lo llaman *oreiller* - de *oreille* 'oreja', los rusos *подушка* [poduška] - de *yxo* [uxo] 'idem', los lituanos *pagalvė* - de *galva* 'cabeza', los

Georgian *dzveli berdznebi brdznebi iq'vnen*¹- literally, 'Ancient Greeks wise were' - highlights two almost-identically-sounding words: *berdznebi* 'Greek (pl.)' and *brdznebi* 'wise (pl.)'.

En français, on peut arriver en avion tout comme en bateau, alors que le mot provient de *rive*. Originellement, *arriver* signifiait 's'approcher du port', fait toujours

Mientras que los castellanohablantes *hablan* y los lusófonos *falan* - ambos últimamente derivados del latín *fabula*, - los catalanohablantes, los italófonos y los francófonos *parlan* -

Arabic سلام [salām] 'hello' (literally, 'peace' - cf. Hebrew שלום [shalōm] and Aramaic ܫܠܡܐ [shlāma]/ Syriac [shlōmo]) is intrinsically associated with سلامة *salāma[t-]* 'safety' (the

Le polonais *półdzień* (de *pół-* 'moitié' et *dzień* 'jour') signifie – comme partiellement en français – à la fois 'midi' et 'sud', tandis que *północ* (de *pół-* 'moitié'