invent or create?
Challenge: find a language that didn't invent it's own word for "butterfly".https://twitter.com/propensive/status/831112530093281280 …
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"not steal"?
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Catalan word for "butterfly" is papallona, which I would say is pretty close to the french one. Does it count?
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Yeah, it would! There are examples, though I don't know of any other word with such a variety of completely different translations.
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what do you meant by invent?
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It's ill-defined, but "not borrowed (and maybe mutated) from another language".
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It's easier to find languages that have its own version :)) P.S. fluture in Romanian :)
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Yeah, I checked, and that was the reason I didn't list it! I mean, Latin *had* to be the same as one of IT/FR/ES/PT!
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Yeah, it would be interesting to compare the etymologies of all of them...
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πεταλούδα (= the flower that flies)
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Is that said something like "petalouda"?
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