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False friends or faux amis are words that may sound similar in two or more languages but in actuality mean different things. Below is a list of false friends, and may prove very useful when learning a new language.

The list does not include words that have different meanings in British and American English. These can be found at List of words having different meanings in British and American English. This is a list of words and phrases having differing meanings in British and American English. ...

Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Examples of false friends between English and other languages The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

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Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
a (French)	a	(he/she/it) has	un, une
a (Welsh)	a	and
à (French)	a	at, to	un, une
à (Portuguese)	a	to/at+the	um, uma
a (Portuguese)	a	the (feminine singular)	um, uma
a (Portuguese)	a	it (feminine singular)	um, uma
a (Interlingua, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish)	a	at, to	un (Interlingua); un, una, uno, un' (Italian); um, uma (Portuguese); un, una (Spanish)
a (Polish)	a	and (when grouping opposites)	jakiś
a (Czech)	a	and	nějaký (or without translation)
а (a) (Russian)	a	but(conjunction)	(no definite or indefinite articles exist in Russian)
aan (Dutch)	an	at	een
abbé (French)	abbey	priest or abbot	abbaye
a continuación (Spanish)	a continuation	coming up next (used on television)	una continuación
accurato (Italian)	accurate	careful, diligent, thorough (it can also mean accurate meaning precise)	esatto, preciso, giusto, corretto
accuser (French)	accuse	can mean "acknowledge" (accuser réception = acknowledge receipt), although it means "accuse" in most cases
actual (Interlingua, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish) atual (Brazilian Portuguese) actueel (Dutch) aktuala (Esperanto) aktuální (Czech) actuel (French) aktueel (Afrikaans) aktuel (Danish) aktualny (Polish) aktuell (German, Norwegian, Swedish) aktuelan (Serbian) attuale (Italian) aktuális (Hungarian) aktualan (Croatian) Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ... Brazilian Portuguese (portuguÃªs do Brasil in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple of million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan, and Paraguay. ... Esperanto flag Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	actual	current/topical/relevant	real, verdadero/a, efectivo (Spanish) real, adevǎrat (Romanian) echt, werkelijk (Dutch) egte, ware, werklike (Afrikaans) pravé, opravdové (Czech) vrai, véritable, réel, effectif (French) rzeczywisty, faktyczny (Polish) tatsächlich, wirklich (German) real, ver (Interlingua) reale, vero/a, effettivo (Italian) virkelig, faktisk, reell (Norwegian) real, verdadeiro/a (Portuguese) verklig, faktisk, reell (Swedish) stvaran, pravi (Croatian, Serbian) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...
actualités (French)	actualities	news, current affairs
adepte (French) adept (Romanian) adept (Polish) adepto (Italiano) adepto (Portuguese) adepto (Spanish) Italian ( , or lingua italiana) is a Romance language spoken by about 63 million people,[2] primarily in Italy. ...	adept (proficient)	follower, fan/admirer, user	esperto, abile (Italian) experto, hábil (Spanish) expert (French) expert (Romanian) ekspert (Polish) experiente (Portuguese)
administré (French)	administer	citizen (as seen from an elected official; old-fashioned) user of a public administration (old-fashioned) may also mean "administered"
ado (French)	ado (fuss)	short for adolescent	Fam. foin; Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing = "Beaucoup de bruit pour rien" de Shakespeare; = sans tergiverser
advertência (Portuguese) advertencia (Spanish) avertissement (French) avertisment (Romanian) avvertimento (Italian)	advertisement	warning	publicidad, propaganda, anuncio (Spanish) pubblicità (Italian) publicitate (Romanian) publicité (French) publicidade, anúncio, propaganda (Portuguese)
affettare (Italian)	to affect	to slice	fare effetto su, influenzare, influire (su)
affluent (French) afluent (Romanian) afluente (Spanish) affluente (Italian)	affluent (wealthy)	tributary (of a river) [opposite of effluent]	rico, adinerado (Spanish) (homme) riche, (société) d'abondance (French) bogat (Romanian) ricco, abbiente, facoltoso (Italian)
After (German)	after	anus	nach
againn (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	again	at us, we have	aris
agencé (French)	agency	laid out or arranged	agence
àgh/àigh (Scots Gaelic)	high (phonetically)	joy	àrd
ail (French)	ail (sicken)	garlic	What ails you?: Pr. de quoi souffres-tu?; Fig. qu'est-ce qui te prend?
aimer (French)	to aim	to love or to like	viser
air (Malay, Indonesian)	air	water	udara
air (Scots Gaelic)	air	on	adhar, àile, aidhear, iarmailt
aire (French)	air	area (e.g. aire de repos = rest area)	air
aire (Scots Gaelic)	air	attention, care	adhar, aidhear, àile
aisé (French)	easy	well-off (of a person)	facile
alas <m	alas!	down (direction)	ikävä kyllä, valitettavasti
alas (Latin)	alas!	wings (acc. pl.)	heu!
ale (Finnish)	ale	short for alennus in alennusmyynti: "discount sale"	ale-olut
ale (Polish)	ale	but	ale - angielskie piwo
allegare (Italian)	allege	enclose, attach (as in documents)	dichiarare, affermare, asserire
alerte (French)	alert	agile, alert
also (Afrikaans, German) alltså (Swedish) altså (Norwegian, Danish) This article is about the bodily orifice. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Binomial name L. Allium sativum L., commonly known as garlic, is a species in the onion family Alliaceae. ... Not to be confused with the Malayalam language, spoken in India. ... Note: This page contains phonetic information presented in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using Unicode. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	also	thus	auch (German), ook (Afrikaans) även, också (Swedish) også (Norwegian, Danish)
allure (French)	allure (the power to attract)	speed, bearing; allure
alto (French)	alto (singer)	viola, alto (singer)
alto (Italian)	alto (singer)	high, tall	contralto
alto (Portuguese, Spanish)	alto (singer, which comes from the same root as alto singers have high voices)	high; it can also mean "Stop!" (imperative)	contralto (Spanish)
americano (Spanish)	American (of or relating to the U.S.A.), or americano (a type of coffee)	of or relating to the Americas (North America and South America)	estadounidense (literally Unitedstatesian), norteamericano (literally North American), gringo or yanqui (slang)
amppeli (Finnish)	ample	hanging flower pot	runsas
Ampel (German)	ample	Traffic light	üppig
ampua (Finnish)	to amputate	to shoot	amputoida
an (Latin)	an	or (whether)	unus, quidem
an (German)	an	at	ein, eine
αν (Greek)	an	if	ένας, μία, ένα
an (Irish or Scottish Gaelic)	an	the
ananas (Danish, Dutch, French, Finnish, Italian, Hebrew, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish, Romanian, Serbian) Ananas (German) ananás (Portuguese, Spanish) ανανάς (Greek) ananász (Hungarian) World map showing the Americas CIA political map of the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World, consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... North America North America is a continent [1] in the Earths northern hemisphere and (chiefly) western hemisphere. ... South America South America is a continent crossed by the equator, with most of its area in the Southern Hemisphere. ... Partial hand amputation Amputation is the removal of a body extremity by trauma or surgery. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	bananas	pineapple	plátano (Spanish) banaan (Dutch) banaani (Finnish) banane (French) bananǎ (Romanian) Banane (German) bananah (בננה) (Hebrew) banan (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Polish) banana (Portuguese, Italian, Spanish) μπανάνα (Greek) banán (Hungarian) This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Hebrew redirects here. ...
ancien (French)	ancient	before the noun, usually means "former"; after the noun, usually means "ancient"	ancien, antique
anciano (Spanish) anziano (Italian)	ancient	very old, elderly person; ascribed to a person without negative connotations	antiguo (Spanish) antico (Italian)
Angel (German)	angel, angle	fishing rod	Engel This article is about the supernatural being. ... This article is about angles in geometry. ...
angel (Dutch)	angel, angle	spike	engel This article is about the supernatural being. ... This article is about angles in geometry. ...
angina (Polish) angine (French) angiina (Finnish)	properly angina pectoris or just angina	tonsillitis (angine tonsillaire), sore throat	dusznica bolesna (Polish) angine de poitrine (French) Rasitusrintakipu or Angina Pectoris(Finnish)
ankara (Finnish)	Ankara	strict
ânon (French)	anon (short for anonymous)	baby donkey	anonyme
anón (Spanish)	anon (short for anonymous)	sweetsop	anónimo
anser (Latin)	answer	goose	responsio, responsum
anta (Portuguese)	ant	tapir	formiga
ānus (Latin)	anus	old woman	anus (the difference is phonetical; namely, the length of the "a")
apologie (French) apologie (Romanian) apología (Spanish) apologia (Italian, Portuguese) Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the countrys second largest city after Ä°stanbul. ... Binomial name Linnaeus, 1758 For other uses, see Donkey (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Annona squamosa L. The Sugar-apple (Annona squamosa), also known in English as Sweetsop and Scaly Custard-apple, is a species of Annona native to the tropical New World. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...	apology	praise, vindication (this is also a less common meaning of the English word "apology," as in Plato's Apology.)	disculpa (Spanish) scusa (Italian) excuse (French) desculpa (Portuguese) The Apology is Platos version of the speech given by Socrates as he defends himself against the charges of being a man who corrupted the young, did not believe in the gods, and created new deities. ...
appoint (French)	appoint	(extra) contribution or help	nommer (un fonctionnaire: a civil servant)
apontar (Portuguese) apuntar (Spanish)	appoint	(to) aim; (to) note down; (to) button up; (to) point at	nombrar (for "nominate" meaning) (Spanish) nomear (Portuguese)
arc (French, Romanian)	arc, ark	longbow, arc	arche (French, ark)
Art (German, Swedish, Norwegian)	art	kind, sort, species	Kunst (German, Norwegian), Konst (Swedish)
arts (Afrikaans, Dutch)	arts	doctor, physician	kuns (Afrikaans) kunst (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Arzt (German)	artist	doctor, physician	Künstler
aß, ass (German)	ass	simple past tense of to eat	Arsch, Esel
Ass / As (German), asso (Italian), as (Spanish, Polish, Serbian, French)	ass / as	ace	Esel (donkey), so/als/wie (adverb), Arsch/Hintern/Po (arse) (German) asino (donkey), come (adverb), culo (arse) (Italian) asno (donkey), como (adverb), culo (arse) (Spanish) osioł (donkey), jako że/ponieważ (adverb), dupa/tyłek (arse) (Polish) aussi (as much), âne (donkey), derrière, Pop. cul (arse) (French) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...
às (Portuguese)	as	at/to the (feminine plural)	como
as (Afrikaans)	ass / as	ash; if	donkie, esel soos (like); want, omdat (because)
as Irish, Scottish Gaelic	ass / as	from, out of	mar (adverb) asal (donkey)
as (Swedish)	as	carrion	som
ἄσβεστος (Greek)	asbestos	quicklime	αμίαντος
asia (Finnish)	Asia	errand, issue, matter, an abstract "thing"	Aasia
ask (Swedish)	ask	small box; ash (tree)	fråga
aß, ass (German)	ass	ate	Arsch, Hintern
assortie (French)	assorted	matched, matching	dépareillé (clothes), hétérogène (mix)
assister (French) asistir (Spanish) assistere (Italian) assistir (Portuguese) asista (Romanian) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... For other uses, see Asbestos (disambiguation). ... Calcium oxide (CaO), commonly known as lime, quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. ... For other uses, see Asia (disambiguation). ... Species See text European Ash in flower Narrow-leafed Ash (Fraxinus angustifolia) shoot with leaves Closeup of European Ash seeds 19th century illustration of Manna Ash (Fraxinus ornus) An ash can be any of four different tree genera from four very distinct families (see end of page for disambiguation), but... The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth. ... Ass may refer to: Look up ass in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	assist	attend (means both assist and attend in Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese; also to watch in Portuguese)	aider (French) aiutare (Italian) ayudar (Spanish) ajudar (Portuguese) ajuta (Romanian)
atendi (Esperanto) attendere (Italian) attendre (French) Esperanto flag Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. ...	attend	to wait for; to expect	prizorgi (malsanulon: to a sick person), ĉeesti (spektaklon: a show) (Esperanto) soigner (un malade: to a sick person), assister à (un spectacle: a show) (French) Esperanto flag Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. ...
atender (Spanish, Portuguese)	attend (an event)	to attend to, to serve; Spanish only to take care of; Portuguese only to receive, to answer	asistir, presentarse a (Spanish) assistir (Portuguese)
atualmente (Portuguese) actualmente (Romanian)	actually	nowadays	na verdade (Portuguese), realmente (Portuguese, Romanian)
aura (Finnish)	aura	plough	sädekehä (a divine aura, halo)
aura (French)	aura	he/she/it will have	aura

Look up aura in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The traditional way: a German farmer works the land with a horse and plough. ... Look up aura in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

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Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
baan (Afrikaans, Dutch)	barn	path, lane, course, job	skuur (Afrikaans) schuur (Dutch)
Backe (German)	back	cheek	der Rücken
Bad (German) bad (Dutch) bad (Norwegian) bad (Swedish) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	bad	bath	schlecht (poor quality), böse (malicious)(German) slecht (poor quality), kwaadaardig (malicious)(Dutch) dårlig (poor quality), slem (malicious) (Norwegian) dålig (poor quality), elak (malicious)(Swedish)
bald (German)	bald	soon	kahlköpfig
baldo (Italian)	bald	courageous	calvo
bán (Irish) bàn (Scottish Gaelic) Baldness (formally alopecia) is the state of lacking hair where it usually would grow, especially on the head. ... Baldness (formally alopecia) is the state of lacking hair where it usually would grow, especially on the head. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	ban	white, fair, fair-haired	bacadh (Scottish Gaelic)
ban (Romanian)	ban	money, coin, small change	interzice
banc (French), bank (Dutch) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	bank	bench, couch (Dutch)	banque (French), bank (Dutch) (financial institution) rive (river bank) jour férié (bank holiday)
bar (German)	Bar	Cash
barf, barfi (Hindi)	barf (slang, "vomit")	ice, a custard-like sweet (respectively)	ulti (slang)
barn (Swedish, Norwegian) bairn (Scots, Geordie) Tray of barfi Fig barfi Barfi or burfi is an Indian sweet. ... Hindi (DevanÄgarÄ«: or , IAST: , IPA: ), an Indo-European language spoken all over India in varying degrees and extensively in northern and central India, is one of the 22 official languages of India and is used, along with English, for central government administrative purposes. ... Tray of barfi Fig barfi Barfi or burfi is an Indian sweet. ... This article is about the Anglic language of Scotland. ... This article is about the people and dialect of Tyneside. ...	barn	child, children	lada, ladugård (Swedish), låve (Norwegian) A barn in southern Ontario, Canada A barn in Wisconsin A barn in Poland Barn redirects here, for other uses, see Barn (disambiguation). ...
bás (Irish), bàs (Scottish Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	bass (the fish or the singing voice)	death
bat (Polish)	but (the same pronunciation) (baseball) bat	whip	ale pałka, kij (bejsbolowy)
bat (German)	bat	bit	der Schläger (sports bat), die Fledermaus (animal)
bàth (Scottish Gaelic)	bath	to drown	amar, amar-ionnlaid
beag (Irish, Scottish Gaelic) beg (Manx) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	beg or big	little	mór (Irish), mòr (Scottish Gaelic), guidh (to beg) (Scottish Gaelic)
bean (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	bean	woman, female	pònair (Scottish Gaelic)
beanail (Scottish Gaelic)	banal (phonetically)	womanly, feminine	(no direct equivalent) sgìtheil
bekommen (German)	become	obtain, receive, get (compare English "come by") (Note: There is a joke to this in German: a German comes into a British restaurant and waits half an hour for his food. Finally, he asks the waiter: "When shall I become a steak?" "I should hope never, sir."	werden
Benzin (German,Danish) benzine (Dutch) benzini (βενζίνη) (Greek) benzyna (Polish) bensin (Swedish) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	benzene	petrol, gasoline	Benzol (German) benzeen (Dutch) benzolio (βενζόλιο) (Greek) benzen (Polish) bensen (Swedish)
beraten (German)	berate	advise, discuss	diskutieren, ausschelten
Bett (German)	bet	bed	Wette, Wetteinsatz
big (Dutch)	big	piglet	groot
bilion (Romanian, Serbian, Polish) bilione (Italian) biljon (Swedish) Billion (German) billion (Faroese, French, Norwegian) billón (Spanish) billion (English) Piglet can refer to: Look up Piglet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A juvenile pig. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ...	billion	trillion (10¹² or million million)	miljard (Swedish), milliard (Faroese, Norwegian), Milliarde (German), miliardo (Italian) miliard (Polish) milliard (English)
bilon (Polish)	billion	change (i.e. coins as opposed to bank notes)	miliard
Bimbō (貧乏) (Japanese)	bimbo	poor person	ばか者 (baka mono)
Bimbo (German)	bimbo	nigger	Tussi, Schlampe
bin (Turkish)	bin	thousand
bin (German)	bin	am	Kasten, Abfalleimer
binn (Scots Gaelic)	bin (receptacle)	fine, melodious, dulcet	ciste
bite (French)	to bite or a byte	dick (slang for penis)	mordre (to bite), octet (byte)
bitten (German)	bitten, (to) bite	(to) ask, plead	gebissen (bitten), beissen (to bite)
bizarro (Spanish)	bizarre	courageous	raro, extraño
blanding (Norwegian)	bland	mix	kjedelig, grå
blankett (Swedish)	blanket	form (paper to fill in)	filt (Swedish)
blast (Swedish)	blast	tops (agriculture)	explosion
blasda/blasta (Scottish Gaelic)	blast	delicious, tasty	gaoitheag, osag, osna (these three referring to wind); blosgadh ("blasting"), milleadh ("destroying")
blesser (French)	(to) bless	(to) injure	bénir
bloc (Spanish) Block (German) blok (Serbian, Polish) block (Swedish) blokk (Norwegian) Look up billion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... One million million (1,000,000,000,000) is the natural number following 999,999,999,999 and preceding 1,000,000,000,001. ... Milliard is a French-derived word meaning the number 1,000,000,000 (109; one thousand million; SI prefix giga). ... British English (BrE, BE, en-GB) is the broad term used to distinguish the forms of the English language used in the United Kingdom from forms used elsewhere in the Anglophone world. ... The easy term for bimbo is a female airhead. ... // Nigger is a racial slur used to refer to dark-skinned people, especially those of African ancestry. ... Look up one thousand in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... For the computer industry magazine, see Byte (magazine). ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... A blessing (from to bless, Old English bleodsian or bletsian) originally meant sprinkling with blood during the pagan sacrifices, the Blóts (reference: AHD). ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	block (noun)	e.g. boulder, notepad (not necessarily a false friend)	road block: Sperre, Stau (German) trafikstockning (Swedish) block of buildings: kvarter(Swedish) etc
bob (Welsh)	bob	every
bod (Scots Gaelic)	bod (a slang form of "body")	penis	corp, colann, bodhaig (when used in anatomy)
boleta/o (Spanish)	bullet	admission ticket, invoice	Bala
bombos (βόμβος - also vomvos) (Greek)	bomb	buzz, whir	bomba (βόμβα - also vomva
bond (French)	bond	leap, bound	lien
Boot (German) boot (Dutch) Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... This article is about firearms projectiles. ...	boot	boat	Stiefel laars
bore (Welsh)	bore	morning	diflasu (to bore a person) tyllu (to bore a hole)
Bowle (German)	bowl	(fruit/wine) punch	Schüssel
brancher (French)	branch	(to) be plugged in, (to) be cool (colloq.)
brand (Swedish, Dutch) Brand (German) Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...	brand	fire (the emergency)	Marke, Warenzeichen (German) merk, waarmerk (Dutch) (varu)märke (Swedish) For other uses, see Brand (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fire (disambiguation). ...
bras (French)	bra(ssiere)s	arm (the body part)	soutien-gorge; soutien; Fam. sousou
bra (Swedish, Norwegian)	bra(ssiere)s	good, well	BH, behå (Swedish, Norwegian)
brat (брат) (Russian, Serbian,Ukrainian) brat (Polish) Bra - front Bra - back A brassiere ( ; , commonly referred to as a bra, ) is an article of clothing that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. ... Look up ARM in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bra - front Bra - back A brassiere ( ; , commonly referred to as a bra, ) is an article of clothing that covers, supports, and elevates the breasts. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	brat	brother	bachor (Polish)
brat (Scottish Gaelic)	brat	garment/covering(Scottish Gaelic)	droch isean, peasan (Scottish Gaelic)
brav (German) braaf (Dutch) bravo/a (Italian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	brave	well-behaved	mutig (German) dapper, moedig (Dutch) coraggioso (Italian)
bricka (Swedish)	brick	tray	tegel
bride (French)	bride	bridle, reins	fiancée
brief (Dutch, Brief German)	brief	letter (mail)	kurz (German) kort (Dutch)
breit (German)	bright	broad	hell
brillant (French)	brilliant	shiny	super
broek (Afrikaans)	brook	trousers, pants, underwear	spruit
brood (Afrikaans)	brood	bread	broiesel (of chicks etc)
broom (Afrikaans, Dutch)	broom	bromine	besem (Afrikaans) bezem (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
brushing (French)	to brush	a blow-dry (hairdresser's)	brosser
brutaal (Dutch)	brutal	bold	gewelddadig
bulle (French)	bull	bubble	taureau
Bulle (German)	bull	cop (Bulle in German means "bull", but also [sl.] cop, policeman)	Stier/Bulle
bulle (Swedish)	bull	bun (pastry)	tjur
bump (Welsh)	bump	five (mutated form)
bunt (German)	bunt	colorful	Bauch (naval)
but /pron. boot/ (Polish)	but	shoe, boot	ale
być /pron. bitch/ (Polish)	bitch	to be	suka
byta ut x [mot y] (Swedish)	substitute x [for y]	substitute [y] for x	byta ut [y] mot x

Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...

C

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
cake (French)	cake	fruitcake, quickbread	gâteau
caldo (Italian), calado (Spanish)	cold	warm, hot	freddo (Italian)
caldo (Spanish, Portuguese)	cold	soup, broth	frío (Spanish), frio (Portuguese)
calla (Scots Gaelic)	call	domestic (of an animal)	gairm, glaodh
calzoni (Italian)	calzone	trousers	calzone (the singular of calzoni, from which that food got its name)
calzón / calzones (Spanish), caleçon (French)	calzone	underwear
camera (French)	(stills) camera	film camera/movie camera	appareil photo
camera (Italian)	camera	(bed)room	macchina fotografica, fotocamera
campo (Spanish), (Italian), (Portuguese)	camp	field, country(side)	campamento (Spanish) campeggio (Italian) acampamento (Portuguese) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... A calzone (Italian stocking or pants (not used frequently for pants: pantaloni is the modern usage for the word pants, plural calzoni), sometimes referred to as a stuffed or folded pizza, is an Italian turnover made from pizza dough and stuffed with cheese and marinara sauce (usually mozzarella cheese and... A calzone (Italian stocking or pants (not used frequently for pants: pantaloni is the modern usage for the word pants, plural calzoni), sometimes referred to as a stuffed or folded pizza, is an Italian turnover made from pizza dough and stuffed with cheese and marinara sauce (usually mozzarella cheese and...
can (Spanish)	can	dog	lata (noun), poder (verb)
canard (French)	canard (falsehood)	duck, newspaper (see Le Canard enchaîné)	mensonge
canes (Latin)	canes	dogs	bacula
canto (Latin, Spanish)	canto	I sing; in Spanish, can also mean pebble, edge, or piece
canto (Italian)	canto	I sing; singing; canto	canto
capítulo (Spanish)	capitulate	chapter	entregar
car (French)	car	bus or coach; for, because	voiture
car (Romanian)	car	I carry	maşină
car (Polish)	car	tsar	samochód, auto
carácter (Spanish, European Portuguese) caráter (Brazilian Portuguese) carattere (Italian) caractère (French) Le Canard enchaÃ®nÃ© is a satirical newspaper published weekly in France, founded in 1915, featuring investigative journalism and leaks from sources inside the French government, the French political world and the French business world, as well as a large number of jokes and humorous cartoons. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... European Portuguese (also named Continental Portuguese or Lusitanian Portuguese) is a group of Portuguese dialects spoken in Portugal. ... Brazilian Portuguese (portuguÃªs do Brasil in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple of million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan, and Paraguay. ...	character	temperament; can also mean "character" in the typographic meaning	personaje (Spanish) personaggio ((Italian))
carpeta (Spanish)	carpet	folder, also doily	alfombra, alfombrilla
casserole (French)	casserole	saucepan	cocotte en terre
casino (Italian)	casino	brothel; also slang for "a mess, a racket"	casinò
casualmente (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)	casually	fortuitously	despreocupadamente, con aire de indiferencia (Spanish) con nonchalance, in modo disinvolto (Italian) A doily is a small ornamental mat usually made of lace or linen placed underneath a dish or bowl Categories: Food and drink stubs ... cast-iron iron enamel stainless steel The cooking pan is a type of food preparation utensil commonly found in the kitchen which includes many more specific cooking vessels such as saucepans and frying pans (or fry pans). ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... A brothel, also known as a bordello or whorehouse, is an establishment specifically dedicated to prostitution, providing the prostitutes a place to meet and to have sex with the clients. ...
casualidad (Spanish) casualità (Italian)	casualty	fortuituousness, chance	víctima, muerto, herido, baja, pérdida (Spanish) vittima, morto, ferito, infortunato, perdita (Italian)
cat (Indonesian)	cat	paint
caution (French) cauzione (Italian)	caution	deposit, bail	attenzione, cautela (Italian)
centre (Lojban)	centre	centimetre	(cuk)midju
celer (Latin)	celery	swift, fast	apium
celere (Italian)	celery	rapid, swift	sedano
chair (French)	chair	flesh	chaise
champ (French)	champ	field	champion; mâchonner
champignon (Dutch, French), champiñón (Spanish)	champion	mushroom or champignon	kampioen (Dutch) champion (French) campeón (Spanish) This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The word bail as a legal term means: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial. ... Lojban (IPA ) is a constructed human language based on predicate logic. ... Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ...
chance (French)	chance	luck	hasard
chat (French)	chat (conversation)	cat	bavarder
chef (French) chef (Dutch) chefe (Portuguese) Chef (German) szef (Polish) šef (Serbian) Chef (Swedish) sjef (Norwegian) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	chef	boss or chief (in French, occasionally means "cook" or "head cook")	kok (Dutch) kokk (Norwegian) Küchenchef/Chefkoch (German) cuisinier (French) Kock (Swedish) szef kuchni (Polish)
chute (Portuguese) chute (French)	chute	kick, shot (Portuguese) fall (act of falling) (French)	toboggan (slide); parachute (parachute) (French)
cimiento (Spanish)	cement	foundation	cemento
cínico (Spanish)	cynical	shameless liar	desconfiado
clod (Welsh)	clod	praise
cognato (Italian) cuñado (Spanish) Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...	cognate	brother-in-law	cognado (Spanish)
coin (French)	coin	corner	pièce de monnaie
coin (Scottish Gaelic)	coin	dogs
colapsar (Spanish)	collapse	becoming congested	derrumbarse, desmoronarse, venirse abajo, desplomarse (Spanish)
colegio (Spanish)	college	high school	universidad
collège (French) colégio (Portuguese)	college	secondary school (UK), junior high school (USA)	lycée (UK), université (UK & USA) See: Secondary education in France Education in France faculdade, universidade (Portuguese)
come (Italian)	come	how, like	venire
come (Spanish)	come	(he/she) eats	venir
comes (Latin)	comes	companion	venit
comma (Italian)	comma	paragraph (in contracts, legal documents)	virgola
compare (Italian)	compare	godfather, sponsor; friend, mate; accomplice	paragonare, comparare
comprensivo (Spanish), (Italian), compreensivo (Portuguese)	comprehensive	understanding	extenso, exhaustivo
compromiso (Spanish) compromisso (Portuguese) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... College (Latin collegium) is a term most often used today to denote an educational institution. ... Secondary school is a term used to describe an institution where the final stage of compulsory schooling, known as secondary education, takes place. ... Middle school and junior high school cover a period of education that straddles primary education and secondary education and serve as a bridge between them. ... In France, secondary education is divided into two schools: the collÃ¨ge (IPA: ) (somewhat comparable to U.S. junior high school) for the first four years directly following primary school; the lycÃ©e (IPA: ) (comparable to a U.S. high school) for the next three years. ... In France, secondary education is in two stages: the collÃ¨ges (IPA: ) cater for the first four years of secondary education from the ages of 11 to 15; the lycÃ©es (IPA: ) provide a three-year course of further secondary education for children between the ages of 15 and 18. ... Schoolsystem in France The French educational system is highly centralised, organised, and ramified. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...	compromise	commitment
concussion (French)	concussion	misappropriation of public funds	commotion cérébrale
concorrenza (Italian) concorrência (Portuguese)	concurrence	competition (in the commercial sense)	coincidenza, concomitanza
confetti (Italian)	confetti (actually a case of pseudo-italianism rather than a false friend)	sugar-coated almonds traditionally given at weddings, baptisms, etc.	coriandoli
confezione (Italian)	confection	packaging; pack	dolciume
conscience (French)	conscience	consciousness, awareness	conscience morale
consentido (Spanish)	consented	adjective that can mean either "dear" or "spoiled" depending on context	consentió (third-person past tense)
consistant (French)	consistent	constisting in (present participle), dense, complete (adjective).	constant
constipado (Spanish), Portuguese	constipated	the state of having a cold (Can also mean "constipated" in Portuguese)	estreñido (in Spanish) com prisão de ventre (in Portuguese)
constranger (Portuguese)	(to) constrain	to embarrass	can also mean to constrain, but most often means to embarrass
contento (Spanish)	contempt	happy, glad (person)	desprecio, desdén, menosprecio (Spanish)
contesto (Italian)	contest	context	gara, concorso, competizione (as a noun)
contesto (Spanish)	contest	I answer	concurso, competición (as a noun)
contrôler (French)	control	monitor, inspect	commander
conviction (French)	conviction	set, strong belief (never in the sense of "Criminal conviction")	condamnation
corne (French) corno (Italian, Portuguese) cuerno (Spanish) Look up cold in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	corn	horn, also Brazilian Portuguese for a man who has been cheated on by his wife/girlfriend	maïs (French) blé d'inde (Québec) mais, granturco (grain) (Italian) maíz (grain) (Spanish) milho (Portuguese) Brazilian Portuguese (portuguÃªs do Brasil in Portuguese) is a group of dialects of Portuguese written and spoken by virtually all the 190 million inhabitants of Brazil and by a couple of million Brazilian emigrants, mainly in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Canada, Japan, and Paraguay. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libÃ©ration du QuÃ©bec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ...
couffin (French)	coffin	baby basket	cercueil
crayon (French) creion (Romanian)	crayon	pencil	crayon de cire (French)
criatura (Spanish)	creature (meaning an animal in an affectionate sense)	newborn baby, infant, OR something imaginary to be afraid of	animalito (Spanish)
crimă (Romanian)	crime	murder	infracţiune
criminal (Romanian)	criminal (the noun -- "a criminal")	murderer	infractor
culte (French) kult (Polish) culto (Spanish, Portuguese) For other uses, see Crayon (disambiguation). ... This article is about the handwriting instrument. ...	cult	worship (as in lieu de culte = house of worship). In Spanish and Portuguese it can also mean "educated".	secte (French) seita (Portuguese)
cul (French) culo (Spanish, Italian) This article does not discuss cult in its original meaning. ... Taken during a Hindu prayer ceremony on the eve of Diwali. ...	cool	arse	frais/fraîche (French) fresco (Spanish, Italian) Bith buttocks. ...
cum (Latin)	cum	with
cùrsa (Scottish Gaelic)	curse	course, direction	mallaich (to curse), mallachd.
curve (Lojban)	curve	pure	kruvi
curvă (Romanian)	curve	whore	curbă

Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Lojban (IPA ) is a constructed human language based on predicate logic. ...

D

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
dag (דג) (Hebrew)	dog	fish	kelev (כלב‎)
dag (Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish)	dog	day	hond (Afrikaans, Dutch), hund (Norwegian, Swedish)
damit (German)	damn it	with it, so that	verdammt
dam (дам) (Russian) dam (Polish) Hebrew redirects here. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... For other uses, see Fish (disambiguation). ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...	dam	I will give	дамба tama, grobla
dash (дашь) (Russian) dasz (Polish)	dash	you will give	(punctuation) тире (punctuation) pauza
data (дата) (Russian) data (Polish) data (Portuguese)	data	date	dannyye (данные) (Russian) dane (Polish) dados (Portuguese)
decepción (Spanish) decepção (Portuguese)	deception	disappointment	engaño (Spanish), engano (Portuguese)
décevoir (French)	to deceive	to disappoint	tromper, abuser
décolletage (French)	décolletage	1. lowering of the neckline (the action, not the result) 2. Agric. cutting the leaves of cultivated roots 3. Tech. producing several identical parts (screws, bolts, etc.) one after another from a single metallic bar on a lathe	décolleté
definitief (Dutch)	definitive	final	oer/archetypisch
deliberar (Spanish, Portuguese)	(to) deliver	(to) think deeply before acting (May be a true cognate of "(to) deliberate"	despachar
delusione (Italian)	delusion	disappointment	illusione
demandar (Spanish)	to demand	to sue	exigir
demander (French) demandi (Esperanto) domandare (Italian) Civil action redirects here. ... This article is about the language. ...	to demand	to ask or request	exiger (French) postuli (Esperanto) esigere (Italian) This article is about the language. ...
derogatorio (Spanish)	derogatory	something that repeals	despectivo
derogatorio (Italian)	derogatory	something that repeals	sprezzante
desfilar (Spanish)	to defile	to parade	profanar
desservir (French)	to deserve (a gift; a compliment; an honour)	to do (s.o.) a disservice; to clean (the table); to lead into (a station); to minister to (a parish)	mériter
dessin (French)	design	drawing
deutsch, Deutsch (German) duits (Dutch) All Saints Chapel in the Cathedral Basilica of St. ...	Dutch	German	niederländisch; holländisch (German) Nederlands, diets (the latter is archaic) (Dutch)
dewiza (Polish)	devise	motto	obmyślać; wynaleźć
die (German) die (Dutch)	die	German; the feminine and plural article; example: die Ehefrau (the wife), die Häuser (the houses) Dutch; that (one), thing or person Look up die in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
dick (German) dik (Dutch)	dick (slang for the penis or a detective) also short for Richard, e.g. in idiom "every Tom, Dick and Harry"	fat (adjective only), thick	Schwanz((German)) Pik(Dutch) Look up dick, Dick in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... Gumshoe redirects here. ...
dig (Danish)	dig	you (accusative)	at grave
dissetare (Italian)	dissect	quench thirst	dissezionare
divers German, diverse (Dutch Norwegian, Swedish)	diverse	various	mångsidig (Swedish) forskjellige, mangfoldige, ulike (Norwegian) vielfältig (German) verscheidene (Dutch)
diversión (Spanish)	diversion	amusement	distracción
diverso (Italian)	diverse	different	svariato
divertir (Spanish)	to divert	to have fun	entretener
divisa (Italian)	devise	uniform (as in distinctive clothing)	ideare; inventare; escogitare
do (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	do	to	deanamh
do (Norwegian)	do	toilet	gjør, å gjøre
do (Polish) do (до) (Russian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	do	to, into; till, until; up to	robić delat' (делать)
dog (Swedish)	dog	died (verb)	hund (Swedish)
dog (Norwegian)	dog	however (adverb)	hund (Norwegian)
dom (Afrikaans, Dutch)	dome	stupid	koepel
Dom (German) dom (Dutch) Duomo (Italian) Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... For other uses, see Death (disambiguation), Dead (disambiguation), or Death (band). ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...	dome	cathedral	Kuppel (German) koepel (Dutch) cupola (Italian) For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Cathedral (disambiguation). ...
dom (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	dome	to me	cruinneacháin
dom (Serbian, Polish) dom (дом) (Russian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	dome	home	kopuła (Polish) kupol (купол) (Russian) For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Home (disambiguation). ...
dom (Norwegian)	dome	judgement	kuppel
dormitorio (Spanish) dormitório (Portuguese)	dormitory	bedroom	can mean dormitory, but more often means bedroom
drinkki (Finnish)	drink	mixed alcoholic drink	juoma (noun), juoda (verb)
dungo (Esperanto)	dung	employment	(horse) dung: ĉevalfekaĵo
douche (Dutch, French) dusch (Swedish) dusj (Norwegian) Dusche (German) Duş (Romanian) For other uses, see Dome (disambiguation). ... A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ... A bedroom is a room where people sleep. ... Esperanto flag Esperanto is a constructed international auxiliary language. ...	douche	shower (bath)	Spülung (German)
drei (German)	dry	three	trocken (adj.), trocknen (v. intr./tr.)
d(a)rum (German)	drum	therefore	Trommel

A douche (IPA: ) is a device used to introduce a stream of water into the body for medical or hygienic reasons, or the stream of water itself. ... It has been suggested that Steam shower be merged into this article or section. ...

E

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
each (Scottish Gaelic)	each	horse	gach
editor (Romanian), éditeur (French), editore (Italian)	editor	publisher	redactor (Romanian), rédacteur (French), redattore (Italian)
eekhoorn (Dutch), ekorn (Norwegian)	acorn (phonetic false friend)	squirrel	eikel (Dutch), eikenøtt (Norwegian)
egg (Swedish, Norwegian)	egg	edge of a cutting tool, such as knife edge	ägg (egg also means egg (as in hen and egg) in Norwegian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Binomial name Equus caballus Linnaeus, 1758 The horse (Equus caballus, sometimes seen as a subspecies of the Wild Horse, Equus ferus caballus) is a large odd-toed ungulate mammal, one of ten modern species of the genus Equus. ... Chicken egg (left) and quail eggs (right), the types of egg commonly used as food An egg is a body consisting of an ovum surrounded by layers of membranes and an outer casing of some type, which acts to nourish and protect a developing embryo. ... In most birds and reptiles, an egg (Latin ovum) is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum. ...
ego (Latin)	ego	I
egregio (Italian)	egregious	distinguished	flagrante
eike (Afrikaans), eiken (Dutch), eik (Norwegian)	acre (phonetic false friend)	oaks, oaken	akker
Eileiter (German)	highlighter (phonetic false friend)	Fallopian tube	Marker
eis (Dutch)	ice	demand	ijs
eis (Dutch)	ace (phonetic false friend)	demand	aas (one-spot card), ace (single-stroke tennis point)
eixample (Catalan)	example	extension	exemple
Elch (German) elg (Norwegian) älg(Swedish)	Elk (US)	moose (US)	Wapitihirsch (German) hjort (Norwegian) kronhjort(Swedish)
eleven (Spanish)	eleven	elevate! (imperative)	once
eleven (Hungarian)	eleven	the living	tizenegy
elev, eleven (Norwegian) élève (French) In his theory of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud sought to explain how the unconscious mind operates by proposing that it has a particular structure. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Highlighters A highlighter is a form of marker pen which is used to highlight sections of documents in a vivid colour, while leaving the content beneath the marking unobscured. ... The Fallopian tubes, also known as oviducts, uterine tubes, and salpinges (singular salpinx) are two very fine tubes leading from the ovaries of female mammals into the uterus. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... For other uses, see Elk (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Moose (disambiguation). ...	eleven	pupil or student	elleve onze
elf (German, Dutch)	elf	eleven	Elf, Elb, Elfe German elf Dutch
elk (Dutch)	elk	each	eland
empirer (French)	empire	to become worse	empire
angajat (Romanian) engagerad (Swedish)	engaged	considered or involved in something in Swedish; involved or employed in Romanian
émail (French) Email (German)	email, e-mail	enamel; Herald. colour (not or or argent* which are "metals")*	E-Mail, elektronische Post German courriel, e-mail, courrier électronique, mél
embarazada (Spanish)	embarrassed	pregnant	avergonzado/a
intitolare (Italian)	entitle	(to) title, call, give a name	dare diritto a
engin (French)	engine	any sort of moving plant or mechanism - usually large	moteur
enjoyar (Spanish)	enjoy	(to) adorn with jewels	disfrutar, gozar
entrée (French)	entrée (US), main dish	entrance, entry, first course; entrée (Brit.)	plat de résistance; plat principal
equanimità (Italian)	equanimity	impartiality	equilibrio, serenità
equivocare (Italian)	equivocate	misunderstand	raggirare (verbalmente)
eras (Latin)	eras	you were	saecula
esquela (Spanish)	scale	note	balanza
estate (Italian)	estate	summer	proprietà (land); patrimonio (inheritance)
estúpido (Spanish)	stupid	idiotic (considered an offensive term)	tonto
etichetă (Romanian) etichetta (Italian) etiket (Dutch) Etiketa (Serbian) Etikett (German) etikett (Norwegian) etiqueta (Spanish, Portuguese) étiquette (French) etiketti (Finnish) Embarazado (World Book Â«ehm bahr ah ZAH dohÂ») (Spanish for pregnant) is a notorious false friend for non-native students of Spanish: attempting to say Im embarrassed by saying estoy embarazado, which means Im pregnant in Spanish. ... For other uses, see Shame (disambiguation). ... This article is about human pregnancy in biological females. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	etiquette	label (can also mean etiquette in Finnish, French, Italian, Romanian, Portuguese, Spanish or Serbian, but is mostly used as label)	etiquette (Dutch) Etikette, Anstandsregel (German) etikette, skikk og bruk (Norwegian) It has been suggested that Office etiquette be merged into this article or section. ... A label is any kind of tag attached with adhesive to something so as to identify the object or its contents. ...
eventual (Romanian) eventualmente (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) eventueel (Dutch) eventuell (German, Norwegian, Swedish) éventuellement (French) ewentualnie (Polish) eventualno (Croatian)	eventually	maybe, perhaps, possibly	uiteindelijk (Dutch) schließlich (German) slutligen (Swedish) finalement finally; ultérieurement at some later time (French) ostatecznie, wreszcie (Polish) zadnje, konačno, na kraju (Croatian), etterhvert (Norwegian)
esile (Italian)	exile	slender, thin; weak	esilio (the state); esule, esiliato (the person)
europé (Swedish)	Europe	European person	Europa
éxito (Spanish)	exit	success	salida

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F

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
fabbrica (Italian) fabrică (Romanian) fábrica (Spanish) fabriek (Dutch, Afrikaans) Fabrik (German) fabrik (Swedish) fabrikk (Norwegian) fabrika (Serbian) fabryka (Polish) fabrique (French) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	fabric	factory (compare 'fabricate') Possible origin due to large Victorian factories producing woven fabric.	stoffa, tessuto (Italian) tela, tejido (Spanish) stof, materiaal (Dutch) materiaal (Afrikaans) Gewebe, Stoff (German) tyg (Swedish) stoff, tøy (Norwegian) tissu (French) tkanina (Polish) For other uses, see Textile (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...
facet (Polish)	facet	man (informal)	aspekt; faseta
facilidad (Spanish) facilité (French) facilità (Italian)	facility	ease	instalación (Spanish) facilities: aménagements; installations; équipements; (transport f.) moyens de transport; (shopping f.) magasins, boutiques; Euph. can I use the f. puis-je utiliser les lavabos? (French)
vak (Afrikaans) fack (Swedish) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...	fuck	topic or subject (Afrikaans) deposit box, slot, or occupation (Swedish) This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...	vok knulla (verb), fan (swear word)
faces (Latin)	face(s)	torches	facies
facilitate (Interlingua)	facilitate	facility	facilitar
fad (Irish)	fad	length	teidhe
fagotto (Italian) fagot (Dutch, Polish, Spanish) fagott (Hungarian, Norwegian) Fagott (German) fagotti (Finnish) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ...	faggot	bassoon	Schwuchtel (vulg., off.) (German) flikker (Dutch) pedał (off.) Polish maricón (Spanish) frocio (Italian) hintti (Finnish) (vulg., off.) homse (vulg., off.) (Norwegian) Look up faggot in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor registers and occasionally even higher. ...
Fahrt (German) vaart (Dutch, Afrikaans) fart (Swedish), (Norwegian) fart (Polish) fart (Catalan) fart (French) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...	fart	journey; speed; trip, excursion, voyage (German) similar, but only used for ships (except speed), also canal (Dutch) speed (Swedish), (Norwegian) luck (Polish) tired, satiated (Catalan) ski wax (French) Flatulence is the presence of a mixture of gases known as flatus in the digestive tract of mammals expelled from the rectum. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Canal (disambiguation). ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...	Furz (noun), furzen (v. intr.) (German) wind, windje, scheet (vulg.), ruft (vulg.) (Dutch) poep (Afrikaans) fis, prutt, fjärt (nouns, add -a to make them verbs) (Swedish) fis, promp, fjert (nouns, add -e to make them verbs) (Norwegian) pierdnąć (Polish) pet (Catalan) pet (French) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...
farmer (Hungarian)	farmer	jeans	gazda, földműves, paraszt (also pejorative), speaking of US also farmer.
fáil (Irish)	fail	to get	bris, teip
fail (Irish)	fail	hiccup	bris, teip
fáinne (Irish), fàinne (Scottish Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	fanny	ring
Falle (German)	fall	trap	Herbst, e.g. Untergang
familiär (German)	familiar	familial	bekannt, vertraut
familiar (Spanish)	familiar	relative, kin	conocido, familiar
familiya (фамилия) (Russian)	family	surname	semya (семья)
fan (Swedish) faen (Norwegian)	fan	satan (swear word)	(e.g. electric fan) fläkt (Swedish) vifte (Norwegian) (supporter) anhängare,supporter (Swedish) This article is about the concept of Satan. ...
fantasia (φαντασία) (Greek) fantasi (Swedish)	fantasy	imagination; conceit	fantasiosi (φαντασίωση) fantasy (Swedish)
far (French)	far	a kind of dessert from Brittany	loin, éloigné
far (Romanian, Catalan)	far	lighthouse	lluny (Catalan) îndepărtat, departe (Romanian) Not to be confused with Desert. ... Historical province of Brittany, showing the main areas with their name in Breton language The traditional flag of Brittany (the Gwenn-ha-du), formerly a Breton nationalist symbol but today used as a general civic flag in the region. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... Eddystone Lighthouse, one of the first wavewashed lighthouses For other uses, see Lighthouse (disambiguation). ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ...
far (Swedish, Norwegian)	far	father	lång(t) (Swedish), lang(t) (Norwegian)
farmaki (φαρμάκι) (Greek)	pharmacy	poison	farmakio (φαρμακείο)
farsi (φαρσί) (Greek)	Farsi	fluently	Persika (Περσικά)
fast (German)	fast	nearly, almost	schnell
fast (Swedish, Norwegian)	fast	firm, steady (compare "steadfast")	snabb (Swedish) hurtig, rask, kvikk (Norwegian) Farsi may refer to: The name of the the Persian language among native speakers Farsi Island, an Iranian island in the Persian Gulf The Jafari Shia Tajiks of Central Asia Salman al-Farsi, one of the prophet Muhammads companions Al-Farisi (1260-1320), Persian mathematician and physicist Jalaleddin Farsi...
faster (Swedish)	faster	paternal aunt	snabbare, fortare (Swedish)
fastidioso (Spanish, Italian)	fastidious	irritating, annoying, vexing; tedious, irksome, tiresome	exigente, meticuloso, pedante, quisquilloso (Spanish) esigente, meticoloso, incontentabile, meticoloso; schizzinoso, schifiltoso Italian) Paternal Aunt means the sister of a persons father, or the wife of a persons fathers brother. ...
fat (Swedish, Norwegian)	fat	(dinner) plate	fet, fett (both)
fat (發) (Cantonese)	fat	to exhibit; to distribute; prosperity (used in conjunction with 財, as in gong hei fat choi)
fatal (German)	fatal	unfavourable	tödlich, verhängnisvoll
fattoria (Italian)	factory	farm	fabbrica
fax (Latin)	fax	torch	(none)
faxina (Portuguese)	fax	to clean	fax, facsimile, telecópia
fear (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	fear	man	eagal
fearail (Scottish Gaelic)	feral (phonetically)	manly, masculine, virile	allaidh
feit (Afrikaans, Dutch)	fête	fact	fees, feesdag Afrikaans) feest, feestdag (Dutch) This article is on all of the Yue dialects. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Fell (German)	fell	fur	fiel, fielst, fielt, fielen
fellah (Arabic)	fella (fellow)	farmer
felón (Spanish)	felon	treacherous or disloyal person	criminal
felonía (Spanish)	felony	treachery, disloyalty	crimen
femelle (French)	female	means female, but only when speaking about animal	for human, use femme
ferret (Latin)	ferret	would bring
figure (French)	figure	face	taille
file (French)	file	line; queue (in computing)	fichier (in computing) lime (tool)
file (Dutch)	file	tailback	bestand (in computing) vijl (tool)
file (Dutch)	feel (can be a phonetic false friend)	traffic congestion	voelen (verb)
fin (French, Spanish) fim (Portuguese)	fin	end	(aquatic) nageoire (French) aleta (Spanish) nadadeira (Portuguese) For the Arabic word for success in the context of Islam, see Falah. ... Arabic redirects here. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... This article needs additional references or sources to facilitate its verification. ...
final (Romanian)	finally (as in "at last")	at the end (as in "finish")
fir (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	fir	men	giúis
fira (Swedish)	fire	celebrate	eld (flames), avskeda (cancel employment)
fixen (German)	fixing	to mainline	befestigen
flint (Swedish)	flint	bald head	flinta
flod (Swedish)	flood	river	översvämning
flog (German)	flog	flew (past of fly)	auspeitschen
flor (Spanish)	floor	flower	piso
Flur (German)	floor	hallway	der Fussboden
fläsk (Swedish)	flesh (human)	pork	människokött, hull
fly (Norwegian)	fly	(air) plane	buksesmekk
Ik fok (Dutch)	I fuck	I breed (animals)	Ik neuk
footing (Spanish)	footing	jogging	equilibrio
for (Esperanto)	for	away	por
for (Latin)	for	I speak	pro, nam, enim
foresto (Esperanto)	forest	absence	arbaro
fort (French) forte (Italian), (Portuguese) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... This article is about the sedimentary rock. ... Bald redirects here; for other uses see Bald (disambiguation). ... For other uses of the word head, see head (disambiguation). ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Jogging is a form of trotting or running at a slow or leisurely pace. ... This article is about the language. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the language. ... This article is about a community of trees. ...	fort	strong (but can also mean fort)
four (French) φούρνος (fournos) (Greek) For the fortification of food, see Food fortification. ...	four, furnace	oven	quatre (French) tessera (τέσσερα) (Greek)
frigideira (Portuguese)	refrigerator	frying pan	frigorífico (Portugal) geladeira (Brazil) geleira (Port. Africa)
frase (Portuguese)	phrase	sentence	expressão, locução
full (Swedish, Norwegian)	full	drunk, inebriated	mätt (Swedish) mett, full, oppfylt (Norwegian) A world map showing the continent of Africa Africa is the worlds second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. ... Look up phrase in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In linguistics, a sentence is a unit of language, characterized in most languages by the presence of a finite verb. ...
Fuchs (German)	fucks	fox	fickt
für (German)	fur	for	Fell, Pelz
fur (Latin)	fur	thief	pellis
fornitura (Italian)	furniture	supply	mobile, mobili; arredamento, mobilio

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G

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
gàirdean (Scottish Gaelic)	garden	arm	gàradh
gala (γάλα) (Greek)	gala	milk	yiorti (γιορτή)
galla (Scottish Gaelic)	gala	bitch	(latha)-sollain
gang (Norwegian)	gang	time, occurrence	gjeng
gaol (Scottish Gaelic)	ghoul, gaol (jail)	love (usually more intimate)	prìosan (Scottish Gaelic)
garder (French)	guard	to keep, e.g., gardez froid=keep cool [of food, etc.]
gate (Norwegian)	gate	street	port
gave (Dutch)	gave	gift (special talent), giftedness	gaf (imperfect singular), gaven (imperfect plural)
gaza (γάζα) (Greek)	Gaza	gauze	Gaza (Γάζα) (note: spelling is identical, but the place will always be capitalized)
Geld (German)	geld	money	kastrieren
geloof (Dutch)	glove	belief, religion	handschoen (Dutch) (literally: hand-shoe)
génial (French)	genial	genius (as an adjective)	réconfortant
Gift (German) gift (Dutch) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Look up bitch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... For other uses, see Love (disambiguation). ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Not to be confused with the Spanish name Garza or the Egyptian town of Giza. ... // Leather gloves A glove (Middle English from Old English glof) is a type of garment (and more specifically a fashion accessory) which covers the hand of a human. ... For other uses, see Believe. ... A genius is a person of great intelligence. ...	gift	poison	geschenk, gift (so can mean both!) (Dutch) Geschenk (German) Love gift Man presents a cut of meat to a youth with a hoop. ... For other uses, see Poison (disambiguation). ...
gift (Swedish, Norwegian)	gift	married, poison	gåva, present (Swedish) gave, presang (Norwegian)
glace (French)	glass	ice, icecream, or mirror	verre
glass (Swedish)	glass	icecream	glas
Glut (German)	glut	heat; glow; embers	Überschuss
glut (Polish)	glut	snot	przesycenie
go (五,碁) (Japanese) (go)	to go	five; Japanese board game	iku
go (Irish)	to go	to, also used to form adverb form adjective - e.g: maith - good, go maith - well	téigh
go (Polish)	to go	him	iść
god (Swedish, Norwegian)	god	good	gud
gracioso (Spanish)	gracious	funny; cute	gentil, amable
grabar (Spanish)	grab	record, save (computing)	agarrar
Graf (German) граф (Russian) This article is about the material. ... This article is about the material. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... For other uses, see Heat (disambiguation) In physics, heat, symbolized by Q, is energy transferred from one body or system to another due to a difference in temperature. ... Go is a strategic board game for two players. ...	graph	count (nobleman)	Graph, Graf граф For other uses, see Graf (disambiguation). ...
gráin (Irish), gràin (Scots Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	grain, gran (short form of "granny")	hate, loathing	gráinne (Irish), gràinne (Scots Gaelic)
gramma (γράμμα) (Greek)	gram	letter; also education	grammario (γραμμάριο)
grape(French)	grape	cluster	raisin
gregario (Spanish)	gregarious	faithfully follows the ideas of others because of lack of own ideas.	sociable
grei (Norwegian)	grey	straight, clear, plain, good	grå
greippi (Finnish)	grape	grapefruit	viinirypäle
grej (Swedish) greie (Norwegian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... This article is about the fruits of the genus Vitis. ... Look up cluster in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Raisins Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... This article is about the fruits of the genus Vitis. ... Binomial name Macfad. ...	grey	thing (slang)	grå (Swedish, Norwegian)
gren (Swedish, Norwegian)	green	branch	grön (Swedish) grønn (Norwegian) For other uses, see Green (disambiguation). ...
grey (Spanish)	grey	flock of sheep, pastor's flock	gris
greve (Norwegian)	grave	Count	grav (Norwegian)
grinn (Scottish Gaelic)	grin	fine, charming, elegant	braois, càir, drèin (although used in the context of "grimace") This article is about the style or title of nobility. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...
grippe (French) Grippe (German) gripa / gripe (Spanish) gripe (Portuguese)	grip (hold) or gripe (complaint)	influenza	Griff, Halt (German) agarrar (grip)/queja (gripe) (Spanish)
groin (French)	groin	snout
grosería (Spanish)	grocery	profanity, bad word	compra, adquisición
gueule (French)	gull (phonetic false friend)	jaws, mouth (of an animal)	goéland, mouette
gun (棍) (Chinese) (gùn) gun (Scottish Gaelic) gùn (Scottish Gaelic) Gun event at the 10th All China Games The Chinese word Gun (Chinese: ; pinyin: gÃ¹n) refers to a long Chinese staff weapon used in Chinese martial arts. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	gun	an ancient weapon (Chinese) without (Scottish Gaelic) gown This article is about the video game. ...	qiāng (Traditional: 槍, Simplified: 枪) gunna (Scottish Gaelic) Traditional Chinese characters refers to one of two standard sets of printed Chinese characters. ... Simplified Chinese character (Simplified Chinese: or ; traditional Chinese: or ; pinyin: or ) is one of two standard sets of Chinese characters of the contemporary Chinese written language. ...
Gymnasium (German) gymnasium (Dutch) gymnasium or gymnasieskola (Swedish) Gymnasium (Czech) gimnaziu (Romanian) A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ... A gymnasium (pronounced with or, in Swedish, as opposed to ) is a type of school providing secondary education in some parts of Europe, comparable to English Grammar Schools and U.S. High Schools. ...	gym(nasium)	high(er) school, grammar school (see Secondary education)	Turnhalle (German) gymzaal (in a school), sportschool (commercial venture) (Dutch) sporthall, idrottshall, gymnastiksal (Swedish) Modern indoor gymnasium with pull-down basketball hoops. ... Secondary education - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
Gummi	gummi	rubber, eraser
gut (German)	gut	good	Darm (intestines), Bauch (belly)

H

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
haai (Afrikaans, Dutch) hai (Finnish, Norwegian) Hai (German) haj (Swedish) hai (Estonian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	high; hi!	shark	hoog; hoi/hallo! (Dutch) korkea; hei! (Finnish) hoch; hallo! (German) høy; hei! (Norwegian) hög; hej! (Swedish)
hai (はい) (Japanese)	high; hi!	yes	takai; yaa (high) ōi/ohayo (hi!)
haïr (French)	hair	to hate	cheveux
half (German)	half	helped	halb (adv.), Hälfte (noun)
handel (Dutch Handel (German) handel (Swedish)	handle	commerce, trade	greep (Dutch) Griff (German) handtag (Swedish)
handled (Swedish)	handled	wrist	hanterat
Handy (German)	handy	mobile phone, cell phone ("Handy" is not really German, it is artificial (pseudo-English) from English and German "hand", but most Germans think that the word is English). It's a pseudo-anglicism.	nützlich
hanki (Finnish)	hanky, handkerchief	crusted snow	nenäliina
happi (Finnish)	happy	oxygen	iloinen
Haß (German)	has	hatred	hat
has (Spanish)	has	second-person past perfect tense of "hacer"	tienes
hat (German)	hat	(he/she/it) has	Hut
hat (Hungarian)	hat	six	kalap
hat (Norwegian/Swedish)	hat	hate, hatred	hatt
haul (Welsh)	haul	sun
hazard (Polish)	hazard	gambling	zagrożenie, niebezpieczeństwo
he (Finnish)	he	they (plural of he/she)	hän
he (היא) (Hebrew)	he	she	hu (הוא)
hell (German)	hell	bright	Hölle
hell (Norwegian)	hell	luck	helvete
helmet (Finnish)	helmet	pearls	kypärä
helppo (Finnish)	help	easy	auttaa
hemp (Afrikaans)	hemp	shirt	dagga
hen (Welsh)	hen	old
her (German)	her	ago, away	sie, ihr
herb (German)	herb	harsh	Kraut, Marihuana
herein (German)	herein	in(wards)	hierin
Herr (German, Swedish)	her, hair	Mr.	sie, Haar(e) (German) hon, hår (Swedish)
hi (Latin)	hi!	these	salve
hielo (Spanish)	yellow	ice	amarillo
hiiri (Finnish)	hire	mouse	palkata
hindî (Tagalog)	Hindi	no
hintti (Finnish)	hint	homosexual man (vulgar)	vinkki
his (Latin)	his	to/for/by/with/from these	eius
história (Spanish)	history	"plot" in fictional contexts
hit (Swedish, Norwegian)	hit	to here	slå
Hochschule (German högskola(Swedish) høyskole(Norwegian)	high school	college/university	Gymnasium (German) gymnasium(Swedish) (not exactly the same)
home (Finnish), pronounced /home/ (transcription help)	home (pronounced differently, /houm/)	mold	koti
home (Galician)	home	man	casa
hoor (Dutch)	whore (phonetic false friend)	imperative of 'horen' (to hear). An expletive affirmation similar to "of course", "very" or "you know",	hoer
horno (Spanish)	horn	oven	cuerno
Hose (German)	hose	(pair of) trousers	Schlauch
ospitale (Italian)	hospital	hospitable, gracious	ospedale
host (Czech)	host	guest	hostitel (-ka, f.)
host (Swedish, Norwegian)	host	cough	värd (Swedish), vert (Norwegian)
hot (Swedish)	hot	threat	het, hett
hôtel de ville (European French)	(the) town hotel	town/city hall	hôtel de la ville
hu (הוא)(Hebrew)	who	he	mi (מי)
husband (Swedish)	husband	house band (music)	make, man
Hut (German)	hut	hat	Hütte, Baracke
huta (Polish)	hut	steel works	chata, chatka, domek
hyypiö (Finnish))	hippy	heraldic owl; a creepy person

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I

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
i (Latin)	I	go! (imperative, singular)	ego
i (Italian)	I	the (m. pl.)	io
i (Irish, Swedish, Norwegian)	I	in	mé (Irish) jag (Swedish) jeg (Norwegian) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...
i (Polish, Ukrainian, Croatian) i (и) (Russian)	I	and	ja ya (я) (Russian)
i (Scots Gaelic)	I	she, her	mi
idiosincrasia (Italian)	idiosyncrasy	strong aversion	tratto caratteriale; eccentricità
Igel (German)	eagle	hedgehog	Adler
igel (Swedish) igle (Norwegian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Genera Several, see below. ... Genera Atelerix Erinaceus Hemiechinus Mesechinus Paraechinus A hedgehog is any of the small spiny mammals of the subfamily Erinaceinae and the order Erinaceomorpha. ...	eagle	leech	örn (Swedish) ørn (Norwegian) Genera Several, see below. ... For other uses, see Leech (disambiguation). ...
ignorar (Spanish)	to ignore	It is not known whether ~ .	no hacer caso
incidente (Italian)	incident	accident, crash (car wreck)	episodio, vicenda
inhabité (French)	inhabited	uninhabited	habité
into (Finnish)	into	eagerness	the illative case -(h)Vn (e.g. talo·on or maa·han)
introducir (Spanish)	introduce	introduce (sexual context)	presentar
invalide (French) Invalide (German) invalid (Swedish) Illative case in the Finno-Ugric languages Illative (from Latin inferre to bring in) is, in the Finnish language, Estonian language and the Hungarian language, the third of the locative cases with the basic meaning of into (the inside of). An example from Hungarian would be a hÃ¡zba (into...	invalid	disabled person	ogiltig (Swedish) ungültig (German) qui n'est pas valable (French)
ir (Spanish)	ear	go	oreja
ire (Latin)	ire	to go	ira
irons (French)	irons	we will go	fers (à repasser)
is (Norwegian)	is	ice cream, ice	er
is (Latin)	is	you go; he, it	est
is (Swedish)	is	ice	är
is (Hungarian)	is	also	van (although usually omitted)
Island (Norwegian, Swedish, German) Ísland (Icelandic) Islande (French) Islândia (Portuguese) Islanda (Italian, Romanian) Islandia (Spanish, Polish) Ysland (Afrikaans) IJsland (Dutch) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	island	Iceland	ö (Swedish) øy (Norwegian) Insel (German) ey/eyja/-ey (Icelandic) île (French) ilha (Portuguese) isola (Italian) insulă (Romanian) isla (Spanish) wyspa (Polish) eiland (Afrikaans), (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
issue (French)	issue (of a magazine)	point of discussion, exit	numéro
it (Latin)	it	he/she/it goes	id

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J

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
jammer (Norwegian)	jammer	moaning, lamentation	jammer, blokker
jest (Polish)	jest	is	żart, kpina; pośmiewisko
join (Finnish)	join	by means of rivers, I drank	liittyä
joli (French)	jolly	nice, cute	jovial, gai
journée (French)	journey	day, daytime	voyage
juntta (Finnish)	junta [hunta]	pile driver, ramming machine	sotilasjuntta
juu (Finnish)	you [juu]	yeah	sinä (singular), te (plural or polite)
juus (Estonian)	(to) use	one hair	kasutama
juust (Estonian)	used	cheese	kasutatud
jurk (Dutch)	jerk	dress	eikel

In the Finnish language, the instructive case has the basic meaning of by means of. It is a comparatively rarely used case, though it is found in some commonly used expressions, such as omin silmin -> with ones own eyes. In modern Finnish, many of its instrumental uses are being... A military dictatorship is a form of government wherein the political power resides with the military; it is similar but not identical to a stratocracy, a state ruled directly by the military. ...

K

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
kabinet (кабинет) (Russian)	cabinet	office
kamera (Hungarian)	camera	video camera / camcorder	fényképezőgép
kamppi (Finnish)	camp	tripping up Kamppi (district in Helsinki) Sony camera head with Betacam SP dock recorder. ... Sony DV Handycam A camcorder is a portable electronic device for recording video images and audio onto an internal storage device. ... Kamppi bus station Kamppi Kamppi (Swedish: Kampen) is a district in the centre of Helsinki, the capital of Finland. ... Location of Helsinki in Northern Europe Coordinates: , Country Province Region Uusimaa Sub-region Helsinki Charter 1550 Capital city 1812 Government - Mayor Jussi Pajunen Area - Total 187. ...	leiri
kanin (Swedish, Norwegian)	canine	rabbit (noun)	hund (noun), hund-, hundaktig (adjective) (Swedish)
kant (Swedish, Norwegian)	cunt	edge (e.g. of a table)
kanto (Finnish)	canto	treestump
Kapitel (German) kapittel (Afrikaans, Dutch, Norwegian) kapitel (Swedish) A canine may refer to: a canine tooth. ... For other uses, see Rabbit (disambiguation). ... A canto is a significant section of a long poem or the highest part in a piece of choral music. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	capital	chapter	Hauptstadt (German) hoofdletter, kapitaal, hoofdstad (Dutch) huvudstad (Swedish) hoofsom, kapitaal, kapiteel, hoofstad (Afrikaans) hovedstad (Norwegian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Kar (Persian language)	car	job/work	Mashin
kau (German)	cow (phonetic false friend)	chew	Kuh
Kaution (German)	caution	deposit, bail	Vorsicht
kedr (Кедр) (Russian)	cedar	Pine, cedar
ken (Finnish)	ken (Scottish dialect)	who (archaic)	tietää, tuntea
Kekse (German)	cake(s)	cookie	der Kuchen
ki (קיא) (Hebrew)	key	vomit	Maphte'aχ (מפתח)
kid (Swedish)	kid (baby goat, child)	fawn	unge
killa (Swedish) kile (Norwegian) Farsi redirects here. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The word bail as a legal term means: Security, usually a sum of money, exchanged for the release of an arrested person as a guarantee of that persons appearance for trial. ... For other uses, see Cedar (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Pine (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Cedar (disambiguation). ... Hebrew redirects here. ... This article is about the domestic species. ... For other uses, see Child (disambiguation). ...	kill, killer	tickle, scratch	döda/mörda, mördare (Swedish) drepe, drapsmann (Norwegian)
killinki (Finnish)	killing	farthing, coin (cf. "shilling")	tappo, tappaminen
kind (Dutch) Kind (German) Farthing is an old word meaning a fourth or a quarter. ...	kind	child	aardig (Dutch) (some kind of:) Art, Sorte; (to be kind:) freundlich (German)
kind (Swedish)	kind / chin	cheek	kind=slag, sort, typ (noun) kind=vänlig (adjective) chin=haka
king (Estonian)	king	shoe	kuningas
kin (Dutch) Kinn (German)	kin	chin	Verwandschaft (German) verwanten (Dutch)
kinn (Norwegian)	kin / chin	cheek	kin=slekt, chin=hake
kis (Afrikaans) kist (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	kiss	box, chest, coffin	soen, kus (Afrikaans) zoen, kus (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
kis (Hungarian)	kiss	small	csók
kissa (Finnish)	kiss	cat	suudella (verb), suudelma (noun)
kiss (Swedish)	kiss	urine	kyss
Kissen (German)	(to) kiss	cushion, pillow, pad	küssen (v.), der Kuss (n.)
kit (Hungarian)	kit	whom	csomag
kit (Polish)	kit	putty	zestaw
knot (Polish)	knot	wick	węzeł
koi (Finnish)	coy /koi/	moth; dawn	kaino
Konfession (German)	confession	Christian denomination	Beichte
konkurence (Czech)	concurrence	competition (in business)	součinnost
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konsekwent (Afrikaans) consequent (Dutch) konsequent (German) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	consequent	consistent	gevolglik, logies (Afrikaans)
kontrollieren (German) controleren (Dutch) kontrollera (Swedish) kontrollere (Norwegian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	control (verb)	check (verb), examine (verb)	steuern (German) beheersen (Dutch) styra (Swedish)
konzentrieren (German)	concentrate	focus	verdichten (German)
korn (Swedish, Norwegian)	corn	barley/grain	majs (Swedish) mais (Norwegian) This article is about the maize plant. ... For other uses, see Barley (disambiguation). ...
Korn (German)	corn	grain, cerial	Mais
kot (Polish) kot (кот) (Russian) This article is about the maize plant. ...	cot	cat	łóżeczko (Polish)
kraai (Afrikaans, Dutch)	cry (phonetic false friend)	crow	roep, skreeu, huil (Afrikaans) roep, schreeuw, huil (Dutch) Binomial name Felis catus Linnaeus, 1758 Synonyms Felis lybica invalid junior synonym The cat (or domestic cat, house cat) is a small carnivorous mammal. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Kraft (German) kraft (Swedish, Norwegian)	craft	power, strength	hantverk, skrå, fartyg Fertigkeit, Handwerk, Fahrzeug (German)
kreatur (Swedish)	creature	cattle	varelse, djur
krawat (Polish) Krawatte (German)	cravat	tie	apaszka (Polish)
krayion (κραγιόν) (Greek)	crayon	lipstick	crayioni (κραγιόνι)
Kritik (German, Swedish)	critic	criticism, review	Kritiker (German, Swedish)
kroon (Afrikaans, Dutch)	croon	crown	neurie
kropp (Swedish, Norwegian)	crop	body, mathematical field	gröda (Swedish)
kula (Croatian, Serbian)	cool, cooling	fort, tower	hladno (Croatian) ladno (Serbian)
kut (Dutch, vulgar)	cut	cunt	snijden (verb), snee (noun)
kult (Norwegian, German)	cult	(to be) cool	sekt (kult also means cult in Norwegian) Sekte (Kult also means cult in German)
kurwa (Polish) kurva (Croatian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In abstract algebra, a field is an algebraic structure in which the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (except division by zero) may be performed, and the same rules hold which are familiar from the arithmetic of ordinary numbers. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Look up cut in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Cunt is an English language vulgarism most commonly used in reference to vulva or vagina and, more generally, the pubis, from the mons veneris to the perineum. ... This article does not discuss cult in its original meaning. ... Look up Cool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	curve	whore; fuck (as interjection-only in Polish) WARNING: this word is regarded as one of the most offensive in Polish language Whore redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... An interjection is a part of speech that usually has no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence and simply expresses emotion on the part of the speaker, although most interjections have clear definitions. ...	krzywa; zakręt (Polish) zavoj, okuka; krivina (Croatian)
kuula, koolaus (Finnish)	cool [kuul], cooling	kuula: bullet; (of granules) pellet, ball koolaus: studwork (in construction)
käke (Swedish)	cheek	jaw	kind (Swedish)
känni (Finnish)	canny /käni/	(the experience of) drunkenness	kiero, taitava
kyk (Afrikaans)	cake (phonetic false friend)	look	koek

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L

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
làb (Scots Gaelic)	lab (short form of laboratory)	mud, labor, dirt, mire, swamp	seòmar-obrach, obairlann, deuchainnlann
labb (Norwegian	lab (short form of laboratory)	paw	laboratorium
lac (French, Romanian)	lack	lake	manque (French) fără (Romanian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Lack Township is a township located in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. ... For other uses, see Lake (disambiguation). ...
lack (Swedish), lak (Dutch), lakk (Norwegian), lakka (Finnish)	lack	lacquer	gebrek (Dutch) sakna (Swedish) mangle (Norwegian) Lack Township is a township located in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. ... In a general sense, lacquer is a clear or coloured coating, that dries by solvent evaporation only and that produces a hard, durable finish that can be polished to a very high gloss, and gives the illusion of depth. ...
lakki (Finnish)	lack	hat, cap (the clothing accessory)	puute, -ttomuus/-ttömyys
lammas (Finnish)	Lammas	sheep
laos (λαός) (Greek)	Laos	the people, the citizenry	Laos (Λάος) (accentation is the difference between the two words)
lappu (Finnish) Lapp (numerous languages) In English-speaking countries in the Northern Hemisphere, August 1 is Lammas Day (loaf-mass day), the festival of the first wheat harvest of the year. ...	lap	slip, tag, label, patch ("Lapp" or is also a politically incorrect xenonym for the Sámi.) Sami flag The Sami people (there are other names and spellings including SÃ¡mi, Saami and Lapp) are an indigenous people of northern Sweden, Norway, Finland and Russia, covering a total area in the Nordic countries corresponding to the size of Sweden. ...	syli
Last (German) last (Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch) lasti (Finnish)	last	load, burden	letzter /-e /-es (German) sist(e) (Swedish, Norwegian) laatst(e) (Dutch) viimeinen, viimeise- (Finnish)
lat (Swedish, Norwegian)	late	lazy	sen
leeu (Afrikaans) leeuw (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	lieu	lion	in pleks van (Afrikaans) in plaats van (Dutch) (lit. "In place of")
Lieder (German)	leader (phonetic false friend)	songs	Leiter
leg (Swedish, Norwegian)	leg	ID, identification papers (short for "legitimation")	ben (Swedish), bein (Norwegian)
limão (Portuguese)	lemon	lime	lima, limão-galego
lemoen (Afrikaans)	lemon	orange	suurlemoen (Afrikaans)
limoen (Dutch)	lemon	lime	citroen (Dutch)
lente (Afrikaans, Dutch)	Lent	Spring	vastyd (Afrikaans), Vasten, Vastentijd (Dutch)
lepel (Afrikaans, Dutch)	lapel	spoon	kraagpunt, lapel (Afrikaans) revers (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the fruit. ... Lime has several meanings: Look up Lime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Lime (mineral) - a group of calcium compounds and minerals in which they predominate, including: Limestone Agricultural lime - a mineral soil additive Calcium oxide (also quicklime) - a chemical compound Calcium hydroxide (also slaked lime) - a chemical compound Lime (fruit... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
levy (Finnish)	levee	disk, disc (particularly, phonogram)
liar (Spanish) lier (French) A levee, levÃ©e (from the feminine past participle of the French verb lever, to raise), floodbank or stopbank is a natural or artificial slope or wall, usually earthen and often parallels the course of a river. ... Manufacturers put records inside protective and decorative cardboard jackets and an inner paper sleeve to protect the grooves from dust and scratches. ...	liar to lie	to tie / bind	mentiroso mentir (false), coucher (horizontal)
librería (Spanish) libreria (Italian) librairie (French) livraria(Portuguese)	library	bookstore	biblioteca (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) bibliothèque (French)
licenziare (Italian)	to license	to fire, to ask to go or vacate	autorizzare, permettere, emettere una licenza Italian
lid (Spanish)	lid	lawsuit	tapa
lied (Dutch) Lied (German) Julio PÃ©rez Ferrero Library - CÃºcuta, Colombia A modern-style library in ChambÃ©ry A library is a collection of information, sources, resources, and services: it is organized for use and maintained by a public body, an institution, or a private individual. ... A bookstore. ...	lied	song	loog (Dutch) log, hat gelogen (German)
Leiter (German)	lighter (phonetic false friend)	leader, conductor; ladder	Feuerzeug; leichter
lima (Portuguese)	lime	lemon, etc. (see article)	limão
lime (French)	lime	file (the tool)	citron vert (fruit), chaux (mineral)
Limo (German)	limo	soft drink, lemonade	limousine
limon (French)	lemon	alluvium	citron
limonadi (Finnish)	lemonade	general term for sweet, flavoured and carbonated soft drink	sitruunalimonadi (carbonated) (lit. lemon limonadi)
limpa (Swedish)	limp	loaf (bread), carton of cigarette packages	halt, halta
limppa (Finnish)	limp	short for "limonadi", lemonade	rampa
limppi (Finnish)	limp	lump	rampa
links (Dutch, German)	links	left (direction, opposite of right)	verbindingen (Dutch) Verbindungen (German)
List (German) list (Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch) Lime has several meanings: Look up Lime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Lime (mineral) - a group of calcium compounds and minerals in which they predominate, including: Limestone Agricultural lime - a mineral soil additive Calcium oxide (also quicklime) - a chemical compound Calcium hydroxide (also slaked lime) - a chemical compound Lime (fruit... This article is about the fruit. ... Lime has several meanings: Look up Lime in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Lime (mineral) - a group of calcium compounds and minerals in which they predominate, including: Limestone Agricultural lime - a mineral soil additive Calcium oxide (also quicklime) - a chemical compound Calcium hydroxide (also slaked lime) - a chemical compound Lime (fruit... For the song from the band: Brand New, see Limousine (MS Rebridge). ... A soft drink is a drink that contains no alcohol. ... This article is about the drink made with lemons. ... This article is about the fruit. ... Alluvium (from the Latin, alluvius, from alluere, to wash against) is soil or sediments deposited by a river or other running water. ... This article is about the drink made with lemons. ...	list	cunning, artfulness, ruse	Liste (German), lijst (Dutch), lista (Swedish), liste (Norwegian)
list (лист) (Russian) list (Polish) list (лист) (Ukrainian)	list	leaf leaf, letter letter (written message)	spisok (спи́сок) spis
lyk (Afrikaans) lijk (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	lake (phonetic false friend)	corpse	meer
listiä (Finnish)	to list	bump off, (of insects) kill	listata
lokki (Finnish)	lock	seagull	lukko
log (German)	log	lied	Baumstamm
log (лог) (Russian)	log	ravine	brevno (бревно) (wooden log), zhurnal (журнал) (log of records)
logos (λόγος) (Greek)	logo	reason, word	logotypo (λογότυπο)
loop (Afrikaans, Dutch)	loop	walk	lissie, hingsel, kykgat (Afrikaans) lus, loep (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
luis (Afrikaans, Dutch)	lace (phonetic false friend)	louse	veter, rygband, kant, boorsel
lukki (Finnish)	luck	spider	onni
luid (Scots Gaelic)	lewd	a slut (vulgar)	draosda, collaidh, baoiseach
lujuria (Spanish) lussuria (Italian) luxure (French) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	luxury	lust	lujo (Spanish) lusso (Italian)
lul (Dutch, vulgar)	lull	penis	windstilte, periode van rust
Lump (German)	lump	blackguard	Klumpen
lump (Swedish)	lump	discarded fabric, slang for mandatory military service	klump
lunatique (French)	lunatic	capricious, mercurial	fou, dément
Lust (German) lust (Swedish) The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... In the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Blackguard is a base character class in older versions of the game, and a prestige class as of edition 3. ...	lust	wish, intent	(sexuelle) Begier, (sexuelle) Begierde, (sexuelle) Lust
lycka (Swedish), lykke (Norwegian)	luck	happiness	tur (Swedish), hell (Norwegian)

M

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
ma (מה) (Hebrew)	ma (mother)	what?	ima (‎אמא)
ma (Italian) μα (Greek) Hebrew redirects here. ...	ma (mother)	but	mana (μάνα) (Greek)
ma (Polish)	ma (mother)	(he, she, it) has	mama
ma (Irish, Scots Gaelic)	ma (short form of "mama", a pet form of "mother")	if	mamaí, mam (Irish); mamaidh, màmag, mam (Scots Gaelic)
ma (Estonian)	ma (mother)	I	ema
maa (Finnish, Estonian)	ma (mother)	earth, ground, land, country	äiti (Finnish), ema (Estonian)
macchina (Italian)	machine	car	macchina
made (Dutch)	made	maggot	maakte (imperfect) gemaakt (participle)
made (Finnish)	made	burbot	teki, tehnyt (subject); tehtiin, tehty (object)
magasin (Estonian, French, Swedish), magazzino (Italian), magazin (магазин) (Russian), magazijn (Dutch), μαγαζί (Greek) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Binomial name Lota lota Linnaeus, 1758 The burbot (Lota lota) is a freshwater fish related to the cods. ...	magazine	store, shop (only as an antiquated and very heavy russicism in Estonian); also warehouse in Italian; storehouse in Dutch and Swedish; magazine (for ammunition)	ajakiri (Estonian); magazine, revue (French); tidskrift (Swedish); rivista (Italian); zhurnal (журнал) (Russian); tijdschrift (Dutch); περιοδικό (Greek)
magot (French),	maggot	Barbary macaque, treasure	asticot
maidín (Irish), madainn (Scots Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	maiden	morning	maighdeann (Irish, Scots Gaelic), rìbhinn (Scots Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...
mai (مّي) (Arabic)	my (/mai/)	water
mai (Estonian) mai (French) Mai (German)	my (/mai/)	May (month)	minu mon, ma, mes mein, meine, meinen, meiner, meines
mai (Italian)	my (/mai/)	never	il mio, la mia
main (French)	main	hand	principal
maine (Finnish)	Maine	reputation
mais (Norwegian)	mice (phonetic false cognate)	corn (maize)	mus
male (Italian)	male	evil (n.), badly (adv.)	maschio (n.); maschile (adj.)
mama (Georgian)	mother	father
man (German)	man	one (impersonal subject pronoun)	Mann
mano (Spanish)	man	hand	hombre
Männer (German)	manner	men	Weise, Art
manner (Finnish)	manner	continent	tapa (noun)
mansione (Italian)	mansion	task	magione, casa signorile, palazzo
maratho (μάραθο) (Greek)	marathon	fennel	marathonios (μαραθώνιος)
marca (Spanish) marka (Polish) Arabic redirects here. ... For other uses, see May (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Hand (disambiguation). ... Official language(s) None (English and French de facto) Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Area Ranked 39th - Total 33,414 sq mi (86,542 kmÂ²) - Width 210 miles (338 km) - Length 320 miles (515 km) - % water 13. ... Mom and Mommy redirect here. ... For other uses, see Father (disambiguation). ...	mark	brand	mancha, huella (Spanish) znak (Polish)
mare (Italian, French, Romanian)	mare	sea (Italian, Romanian), pond (French)	giumenta, cavalla (Italian) jument (French) iapă (Romanian)
mark (Afrikaans, Estonian, Norwegian)	mark	market (Afrikaans), stamp (mark, a short of postmark in Estonian), worm (Norwegian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	merk, teken, stempel (Afrikaans), Estonian: märk, märkima (verb), merke, tegn (Norwegian) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Marmelade (German)	marmalade	jam	Orangenmarmelade
marmite (French)	Marmite	large covered cooking pot
marron (French)	maroon	brown (as an adjective), sweet chestnut (as a noun)	bordeaux
máscara (Spanish)	mascara	mask	rimel
math (Scottish Gaelic) maith (Irish) For other uses, see Marmalade (disambiguation). ... Jam from berries Jam (also known as jelly or preserves) is a type of sweet spread or condiment made with fruits or sometimes vegetables, sugar, and sometimes pectin if the fruits natural pectin content is insufficient to produce a thick product. ... A jar of the British version of Marmite Marmite is a British and New Zealand savoury spread made from yeast extract, a by-product of beer brewing. ... Binomial name Mill. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	math	good, well	eòlas-àireamh (Scottish Gaelic)
Maß or Mass (German)	mass	measure or beer stein, stein	Masse (quantity of matter); Messe (Catholic cult)
mate (Spanish)	mate	traditional infusion made from yerba (herbs)
mayim (מים) (Hebrew)	mime	water	Mime act- Pantomima (פנטומימה); Mime artist- Pantomima'i (פנטומימאי)
me (Finnish, Estonian)	me /mii/	we	minua, minut (Finnish); mina, mind (Estonian)
me (麼) (Mandarin)	me (phonetic false friend: may)	interrogative marker	wŏ
me (Sumerian)	me (phonetic false friend: may)	(divine) aura
media (Spanish)	media	half, middle, medium, average; sock	medio
médico (Brazilian Portuguese)	magic, magician (phonetic false friend: D sounds as G)	doctor, medical	magic: mágica magician: mágico/a
mena (Swedish), meinen (German), mene (Norwegian)	mean	have an opinion	betyda (Swedish), bedeuten (German), bety, mene (Norwegian)
meni (Finnish)	many (phonetic false cognate)	went	moni; in partitive monta
merci (French)	mercy	thank you	grâce; in some frozen expressions merci
meri (Finnish, Estonian)	merry	sea	lõbus, rõõmus (Estonian)
Messe (German) mässa (Swedish)	mess	fair, exhibition, catholic mass	Durcheinander (German), röra (Swedish)
métro (μέτρο) (Greek)	metro (transport, subway)	meter, meterstick, bar; also restraint, moderation; also step (rarely)	metró (μετρό) (itself not to be confused with μετρώ, the corresponding verb of μέτρο)
mi (מי) (Hebrew)	me	who?	Varies according to preposition. To me - li (לי); Towards me - Elai (אלי); For me - Bishvili (בשבילי); And me - Ve'ani (ואני); In me - Bi (בי); On me - Alai (עלי); With me - Iti (איתי); By me - Leyadi (לידי); From me - Mi'meni (ממני); and others
mi (Hungarian)	me	what?	én
míle Irish language, mìle Scottish Gaelic mille (Italian, French) Mille (German (slang)) mil (Spanish, Portuguese) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... For other uses, see Mass (disambiguation). ... Measure can mean: To perform a measurement. ... German MaÃŸkrug of Augustiner BrÃ¤u. ... Hebrew redirects here. ... Look up we in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... Sumerian ( native tongue) was the language of ancient Sumer, spoken in Southern Mesopotamia from at least the 4th millennium BCE. It was gradually replaced by Akkadian as a spoken language in the beginning of the 2nd millenium BCE, but continued to be used as a sacred, ceremonial, literary and scientific... Portuguese ( or lÃngua portuguesa) is a Romance language that originated in what is now Galicia (Spain) and northern Portugal from the Latin spoken by romanized Celtiberians about 1000 years ago. ... Look up magic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up magician in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The basic meaning of the Partitive case is partialness, without result or without specifying identity. In the Finnish language, its used to express unknown identities and irresultative actions. ... For other uses, see Mercy (disambiguation). ... Hebrew redirects here. ... This article is about the modern Goidelic language. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...	million, mile	thousand; also "mile" in French, in Scottish Gaelic and in Irish
mille (Finnish)	mill	to what, to which	mylly
mire (Scots Gaelic)	mire	joy, delight, ecstasy	clàbar, eabar, làb, poll
mis (Finnish)	miss	colloquial form of "where?"	neiti (young woman); kaivata (wish to come back); mennä ohi (not hit)
misère (French)	A)misery B)miser	poverty	A)malheur B)avare
miséricorde (French) misericordia (Italian, Spanish) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ...	misery	mercy, forgiveness	malheur (French) infelicità, tormento, sofferenza, pena; indigenza, povertà (Italian desdicha, aflicción, sufrimiento, pena; estrechez, pobreza (Spanish)
Mist (German)	mist	manure, droppings	Nebel
miting (Serbian)	meeting	political demonstration	sastanak
modder (Dutch)	mother (phonetic false friend)	mud	moeder, ma, mam, mams
Mode (German) mode (Swedish, Dutch) moda (Spanish, Italian) moda (Polish) Dramatic morning mist Mist is a phenomenon of a liquid in small droplets floating through air. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Meetings are sometimes held around conference tables. ... For other uses, see Demonstration. ...	mode	fashion, haute couture	(Art und) Weise, Modus (German) modus, manier, wijze (Dutch) sätt, vis, läge (Swedish) tryb, sposób (Polish) For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). ... Haute couture (French for high sewing or high dressmaking; IPA: ) refers to the creation of exclusive custom-fitted fashions. ...
molestar (Spanish)	molest	bother, disturb	acosar sexualmente
moneda (Spanish) moneta (Italian) moneta (Polish) monnaie (French)	money	currency; also "coin" in Spanish and Italian, and "change" (returned from a purchase) in French coin (Polish)	dinero (Spanish) soldi, denaro (Italian) pieniądze (Polish) argent (French) For other uses, see Money (disambiguation). ...
monster (Dutch language)	monster	sample	monster (so, has two distinct meanings)
mór (Irish) mòr (Scottish Gaelic) Dutch ( ) is a West Germanic language spoken by around 24 million people, mainly in the Netherlands, Belgium and Suriname, but also by smaller groups of speakers in parts of France, Germany and several former Dutch colonies. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	more	big, great	tuilleadh, bàrrachd (Scottish Gaelic)
mòran (Scottish Gaelic)	moron	much, many	neach lag-inntinneach
morbido (Italian)	morbid	soft, delicate	morboso, malsano
moroso (Spanish) moroso (Italian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	morose	in arrears; (noun, fam., N. Italy) boyfriend, fiancé	cupo, imbronciato, scontroso (Italian) hosco, taciturno, intratable (Spanish)
Mörder (German), morder (Norwegian)	murder	murderer	Mord (German), mord (Norwegian)
most (мост) (Russian)	most	bridge	больше [всего]
motoristi (Finnish)	motorist	motorcyclist, biker	autoilija
multiplicatsiya (мультипликация) (Russian)	multiplication	animation	umnozheniye (умножение)
Muschi (German)	mushy	colloquial for "vagina"	breiartig
mut (Finnish)	mutt	colloquial for "me" (telic)	mopsi (polite); rakki, piski (rude)
Mut (German)	mutt	courage
my (Polish) my (мы) (Russian)	my	we	mój (Polish) moy (мой) (Russian)

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N

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
nacke (Swedish) Nacken (German)	neck	back of the neck	hals (Swedish) Hals (German)
nai (ναι) (Greek) no (Czech, Polish) ne (네) (Korean)	nay, no	yes	όχι (Greek) ne (Czech) nie (Polish) anio (아니오) (Korean)
nai + partitive object (Finnish) nai + accusative object (Finnish) The term accusative may be used in the following contexts: A form of morphosyntactic alignment, as found in nominative-accusative languages. ...	nay	fuck marry This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...	ei
nain + partitive object (Finnish) nain + accusative object (Finnish) The term accusative may be used in the following contexts: A form of morphosyntactic alignment, as found in nominative-accusative languages. ...	nine /nain/	I fuck I marry This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...	yhdeksän
nais- (Finnish)	nice	woman, female (used at the start of compound words)	kiltti (behaving nicely), kiva, siisti (general positive)
natie (Dutch)	Nazi	nation	nazi
nauru (Finnish)	Nauru	laughter
nein (German)	nine (phonetic false cognate)	no	neun
nett (German)	net	nice, friendly, jolly	Netz
no (Finnish)	no /nou/	uh, well	ei
no (но) (Russian)	no	but, however	nyet (нет)
no (Irish, Scots Gaelic)	no	or	There are not direct equivalents of "yes" or "no" in Gaelic; usually, the positive ("is", "will do", etc.) and negative ("is not", "will no do", etc.) forms of the verb are used instead.
no (Portuguese)	no	in/on the (masculine, a mixture of em + o)	não
no (Japanese)	no	's (possessive)	īe
noleggio (Italian)	knowledge	hire, rental	conoscenza
Not (German)	not	emergency (noun), desperate need (noun, obsolete)	nicht
noticias (Spanish)	notices	news	anuncios
novelli (Finnish) nouvelle (French) Novelle (German) novella (Italian) novelle (Norwegian) nowela (Polish) novela (Spanish) novell (Swedish) novelo (Esperanto) Nazism in history Nazi ideology Nazism and race Outside Germany Related subjects Lists Politics Portal Nazism or National Socialism (German: Nationalsozialismus), refers primarily to the ideology and practices of the Nazi Party (National Socialist German Workers Party, German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP) under Adolf Hitler. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Possessive can refer to: Possessive case Possessive pronoun This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... This article is about the language. ...	novel	short story, novella (in French also news, news item)	romaani (Finnish) roman (French) roman (German) romanzo (Italian) roman (Norwegian, Swedish) powieść (Polish) romano (Esperanto) This article is about the language. ...

O

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
oder (German)	odor	or	Geruch
of (Dutch)	of/off	or, (whether, either in combination with or)	uit
officina (Italian)	office	workshop	ufficio
ohayo (おはよ) (Japanese)	Ohio	good morning	Ohio
ombrelle (French)	umbrella	sunshade	parapluie
on (Polish, Serbian) on (он) (Russian) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	on	he	na (Polish, Serbian) na (на) (Russian) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...
on (Finnish)	on	is	-lla, -llä. päälle
on (French)	on	we, nondescript subject (cf. passive "one")	sur
once (Spanish), onze (Portuguese language)	once, ounce	eleven	once: una vez (Sp.) uma vez (Pt.) ounce: onza (Sp.), onça (Pt.)
one (Polish)	one	they (f.)	jeden
open (Finnish)	open	colloquial form of "of the teacher"	auki (adverb), avoin (adjective), avata (verb)
or (French)	or	gold, now (introducing second proposition of a syllogism)	ou
ordynarny (Polish)	ordinary	rude	zwykły, pospolity
ore (俺) (Japanese)	ore	boastful first-person pronoun	aragane (粗金)
ospitale (Italian)	hospital	hospitable	ospedale
ostrica (Italian)	ostrich	oyster	struzzo
ours (French)	ours	a bear	le(s) nôtre(s)

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P

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
paa (Finnish)	pa (father)	Colloquial for "put"	isä (literal) or isi (childish)
paarden (Dutch)	pardon	horses	pardon, excuseer
pace (Italian)	pace	peace	passo, andatura
pain (French)	pain	bread	douleur
paini (Finnish)	pain	wrestling	kipu
pan (Spanish) pan (パン) (Japanese)	pan	bread	sartén (kitchen cookware) (Spanish), Furaipan (Japanese)
pan (Polish, Ukrainian (пан))	pan	sir, mister	patelnia (Polish)
papa (Italian)	Papa (slang) (father)	pope	Papà (Italian)
papa (Spanish)	Papa (slang) (father)	potato (in American and Spanish from southern Spain)	Papá (Spanish)
parenti (Italian) parientes (Spanish) parentes (Portuguese) parencoj (Esperanto) This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ... Who ever deleted my page is a prat and i wil hunt them down on lucy and shout at them loudly! RAAAAARRR! connie sansom ... Papa can refer to: The letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet. ... For other uses, see Pope (disambiguation). ... Papa can refer to: The letter P in the NATO phonetic alphabet. ... For other uses, see Potato (disambiguation). ... This article is about the language. ...	parents	relatives, members of kin	genitori (Italian) padres (Spanish) pais (Portuguese) gepatroj (Esperanto) This article is about the language. ...
partij (Dutch)	party	match, game	gezelschap, party (as in political party) (Dutch)
pasta (Polish, Greek (πάστα))	pasta	paste, spread	zimarika (Greek (τα ζυμαρικά)) makaron (Polish)
pasta (Portuguese)	pasta	briefcase, folder	massa
pasuuna (Finnish)	bassoon	trombone	fagotti
pateettinen (Finnish)	pathetic	high-flown (i.e. full of pathos)	säälittävä
patente (Italian)	patent	driver's license	brevetto
patetic (Romanian) pathétique (French) Look up Pathos in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	pathetic	emotional (in French, can also mean pathetic)
patetyczny (Polish)	pathetic	solemn, sombre	żałosny, godny pogardy
pathetisch (German), patetisk (Swedish)	pathetic	solemn, lofty	erbärmlich (German), gripande (Swedish)
pavimento (Italian)	pavement	floor
pellet (Latin)	pellet	will drive
pen (Welsh)	pen	head
pennen (German)	pen	slang for "to sleep"
pensseli (Finnish), pensel (Swedish)	pencil	paintbrush	lyijykynä (Finnish), penna (Swedish)
peperoni (Italian)	pepperoni (actually a case of pseudo-italianism rather than a false friend)	bell peppers / sweet peppers	salamino
perse (Finnish)	per se (Latinism)	arse, ass	sinänsä
pétulant (French)	petulant	playful	irritable, irrascible, irrité
penzion (Czech)	pension	guesthouse, bed and breakfast hotel	důchod
phon (Italian)	phone	hair dryer	telefono
phoque (French)	fuck (phonetic false friend)	seal	baise
phrase (French)	phrase	sentence	expression
physicien (French)	physician	physicist	médecin
piano (πιάνω) (Greek)	piano	to take; to start; to catch	πιάνο
pie (Spanish)	pie	foot	empanada
pie (French)	pie	Magpie	tarte
pies (Polish)	pies	dog
pigg (Swedish)	pig	brisk, wide-awake	gris
pii (Finnish)	π	silicon the element, also archaic "tooth"
pijl (Dutch)	pile	arrow	stapel, hoop
pilli (Finnish)	pill	drinking straw	pilleri
pilsneri (Finnish)	pilsner	low-alcohol beer
pimppi (Finnish)	pimp	childish world for "female genitalia"	parittaja, sutenööri
pingouin (French)	penguin	auk	manchot (pingouin is also used in French for "penguin", but this is considered incorrect)
pis- (Slavic languages)	piss	root (linguistics) for "write"
pit (Scots Gaelic)	pit	the vulva, and can be used as an explitive	poll, sloc, poll, toll
plata (Spanish)	plate	silver; also slang for pocket money	plato
pocket(bok) (Swedish)	pocket	paperback	ficka (Swedish)
poke (Finnish)	poke /pouk/	slang for "bouncer, doorman" also, a contraction of "pornografia" Look up Emotion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Tourists of various nationalities chatting over breakfast at a B&B in Quebec City. ... Not to be confused with physician, a person who practices medicine. ... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Foot (disambiguation). ... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... This article is about the bird. ... This article is about the baked good, for other uses see Pie (disambiguation). ... Trinomial name Canis lupus familiaris The dog (Canis lupus familiaris) is a domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. ... When a circles diameter is 1, its circumference is Ï€. Pi or Ï€ is the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter in Euclidean geometry, approximately 3. ... Not to be confused with Silicone. ... Look up Pile in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article is about the weapon. ... Pilsener or pilsner is a type of lager beer. ... Modern genera Aptenodytes Eudyptes Eudyptula Megadyptes Pygoscelis Spheniscus For prehistoric genera, see Systematics Some penguins are curious. ... Genera Uria Alle Alca Pinguinus Synthliboramphus Cepphus Brachyramphus Ptychoramphus Aethia Cerorhinca Fratercula Extinct genera, see Systematics Auks are birds of the family Alcidae in the order Charadriiformes. ... Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup... Look up piss, pissed, take the piss in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The root is the primary lexical unit of a word, which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... The external genital organs of the female are collectively known as the vulva (plural vulvae or vulvas)[1]. In common speech, the term vagina is often used improperly to refer to the vulva or female genitals generally, even though, strictly speaking, the vagina is a specific internal structure, whereas the... This article is about the chemical element. ... For other uses, see Pocket (disambiguation). ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article may require cleanup. ... A doorman (more commonly referred to as a bouncer) is a term for a person who deals with the general security of a bar, pub or nightclub. ...	tökätä, tökkiä
poligon (Polish)	polygon	military area	wielokąt
polisie (Afrikaans)	policy	police	beleid, polis
polizia (Italian) policía (Spanish), polícia (Portuguese) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	policy	police	politica (eg economic policy), polizza (insurance contract) (Italian) póliza (Sp.), apólice (Pt.), política (Sp., Pt.)
poll (Scots Gaelic)	(voting) poll	mud, mire, pit, bog, dirt	ainm-chlàr
pollution (Swedish)	pollution	nocturnal emission	förorening
polygrafie (Czech) poligrafia (Polish) poligrafija (полиграфия) (Russian) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Air pollution Pollution is the introduction of pollutants (whether chemical substances, or energy such as noise, heat, or light) into the environment to such a point that its effects become harmful to human health, other living organisms, or the environment. ... A nocturnal emission is an ejaculation of semen experienced by a male during sleep. ...	polygraph	publishing	wariograf (Polish) poligraf (полиграф) (Russian) This article is about the forensic instrument. ... â€œPublisherâ€ redirects here. ...
pom (Romanian)	Pommie, Pom	Fruit bearing tree
pomm (Estonian) pommi (Finnish)	Pommie, Pom	bomb
pomme (French)	Pommie, Pom (see Alternate words for British)	apple
Pony (German)	ponytail	fringe	Pferdeschwanz
port (Norwegian, Swedish)	port	gate	havn (Nor), hamn (Swe)
portemanteau (French)	portmanteau	coat hanger	mot-valise
possum (Latin)	possum	I can
pourchasser (French)	to purchase	to hunt about, to chase about	acheter (to buy), acquérir (to acquire)
pragmatikos (πραγματικός) (Greek)	pragmatic	real, actual	pragmatistikos (πραγματιστικός)
pregnant (Romanian, Swedish, Dutch) prägnant (German) There are many alternative ways to describe United Kingdom nationals. ... This article is about the fruit. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Possum (disambiguation). ...	pregnant	short but informative; remarkable, prominent	gravid (Swedish), schwanger (German), zwanger (Dutch)
prévenir (French)	prevent	warn	empêcher
presentera sig (Swedish)	present oneself	introduce oneself	visa upp sig
preservativo (Spanish, Portuguese, Italian) prezervativ (Romanian) Präservativ (German) prezerwatywa (Polish) préservatif (French) (1)	preservative	condom; also "preservative" in Spanish	conservante (Spanish, Italian), Konservierungsmittel (German), conservateur (French) This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the male contraceptive device. ...
pretendere (Italian) pretender (Spanish, Portuguese)	pretend	aspire to, expect; (to) court (Spanish, Portuguese) / demand, require, claim (Italian)	fingir, aparentar (Spanish) fingere, far finta di (Italian)
prick (Swedish) prikk (Norwegian)	prick	dot, period	kuk, balle (very vulgar Swedish), kuk, pikk (very vulgar Norwegian) The penis (plural penises, penes) is an external male sexual organ. ... Dot can refer to several different characters: full stop, or period, primarily used in writing to end a sentence. ... A full stop or period (sometimes stop, full point or dot), is the punctuation mark commonly placed at the end of several different types of sentences in English and many other languages. ...
privet (привет) (Russian)	private	greeting
proces (Romanian) proces (Polish) process (Swedish) prosess (Norwegian) Prozess (German)	process	trial (at court) / (in Swedish, Norwegian and German mainly used to denote process but also means trial, in Polish mainly used to denote trial but also means process)	bearbeta, behandla, handlägga (Swedish) bearbeiten (German) Illustration of a physical process: a geyser in action. Process (lat. ... In legal parlance, a trial is an event in which parties to a dispute present information (in the form of evidence) in a formal setting, usually a court, before a judge, jury, or other designated finder of fact, in order to achieve a resolution to their dispute. ...
propaganda (Spanish, Portuguese)	propaganda	advertising (can also mean propaganda depending on context)
prospettiva (Italian)	prospective	perspective	potenziale, probabile, possibile
prospecto (Spanish) prospetto (Italian) prospect (Romanian) Prospekt (German) For other uses, see Propaganda (disambiguation). ... Advert redirects here. ...	prospect	brochure, leaflet, prospectus	posibilidad, perspectiva (Spanish) Perspektive (German) Polish soldiers reading a German leaflet during the Warsaw Uprising A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). ...
prospekt (Swedish, Norwegian)	prospect	prospectus, document or brochure detailing an offer (usually from a travel agent)	förväntning, utsikt, möjlighet (Swedish)
prospekt (проспект) (Russian, Ukrainian)	prospect	avenue
prune (French)	prune	plum	pruneau
pub (French)	pub (public house)	short for publicité (advertisement)	bar
pudink (Czech)	pudding (dried blood)	custard	prejt
pump (Welsh)	pump (spelling) pimp (pronunciation)	five
punkki (Finnish)	punk	acarus (the tick)	roisto "thug", pikkurikollinen "minor offender"
pure (Italian)	pure	however	pulito
pus (Finnish), puss (Swedish) Species See text. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...	pus	onomatopoeia for a kiss	visva (Finnish), var (Swedish)
pussi (Finnish)	pussy	bag	for the genitals: emätin (biological), vittu (derogatory); for pussy cats: (kissi)mirri
puto/puta (Spanish)	put	vulgar insult meaning "bitch"	poner
puu (Finnish)	poo (phonetic false friend)	tree, wood	kakka (childish), paska (rude)
puzzle (French, Italian, Polish, Romanian) Puzzle (German) puzle (Esperanto) For the supervillain, see Onomatopoeia (comics). ... Paska is a Finnish one man a cappella rock band formed in 1985. ... This article is about the language. ...	puzzle	jigsaw puzzle	casse-tête (French) Geduldsspiel (German) rompicapo (Italian) A puzzle undone, which forms a cube Puzzle cube; a type of puzzle For other uses, see Puzzle (disambiguation). ... For the Rolling Stones song, see Jigsaw Puzzle A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of numerous small, often oddly shaped, interlocking and tessellating pieces. ...

Q

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
queue (French)	queue	tail, penis (slang), queue,	queue (noun), faire de queue (verb)
quince (Spanish)	quince	fifteen	membrillo
quicar (Portuguese)	to kick	to bounce	chutar

Queue at US Air Force station in Iraq, for food at a birthday celebration. Queue areas are areas in which people queue (first-come, first-served), that is they wait in line for something. ... Binomial name Mill. ...

R

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
raftis (ράφτης) (Greek)	raft	tailor	schedia (σχεδία)
raisin (French)	raisin	grape	raisin sec
rang (French, Afrikaans, Swedish) Rang (German) This article is about the fruits of the genus Vitis. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ...	range	rank	Reichweite, Auswahl, ... (German)
rankki, rankka (Finnish)	rank	rankki: distiller's grain; (in paper manufacturing) spent wash rankka: hard (on something)	arvo
rapa (Finnish)	rape	dirt	raiskata
rapa (Latin)	rape	rutabaga
rapé (French)	raped	gratted	violé(e)
rapa (Swedish) rape (Norwegian) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Mill. ...	rape	burp	våldta (Swedish), voldta (Norwegian)
rat (Afrikaans)	rat	gear	rot
Rat (German) Rathaus	rat rat house	advice; council; councilor (U.S.), councillor (Br.) town hall	Ratte Rattenhaus
rat (Serbian)	rat	war	pacov
raven (равен) (Russian)	raven	equal	voron (ворон)
räven (Swedish)	raven	the fox
ratti (Finnish) ratt (Norwegian) Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Look up advice in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Raven (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Raven (disambiguation). ...	ratty	steering wheel	rottamainen (Finnish)
realizar (Spanish)	realize	carry out	darse cuenta
réal (Irish)	real	star	fíor
real (Spanish)	real	royal (also can mean "real")	real, verdadero/a
realtà (Italian)	realty	reality	beni immobili
resept (Norwegian) recept Swedish) This article is about the astronomical object. ...	receipt	recipe (food); (medical) prescription	kvittering(no), kvitto (swe)
récipient (French)	recipient	Food storage	destinataire
red, redt (Dutch)	red	save, saves (both verb)	rood
red (Spanish)	red	net	rojo
rein (French)	rein	kidney	bride
rein ((Dutch)) (German) Food caches, Hooper Bay, Alaska, 1929. ...	rein	pure, clean	teugel ((Dutch)) Zügel (German)
renta (Spanish)	rent	profit	arrienda
resorte (Spanish) ressort (French)	resort (noun)	spring (as in coiled elastic device); can also be means, as in "means to an end" (Sp.), pep (Fr.: Fig.)	recurso; sitio de vacaciones station (station de ski, station de sports d'hiver = ski resort)
Rest (German) rest (Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish) reste (French) reshta (решта) (Ukrainian) reszta (Polish) resto (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese)	rest	remainder (cf. "The rest is silence"); in Polish also "change" (returned from a purchase)	Pause (German) vila (Swedish) wypoczynek (Polish) rust (Dutch) descanso (Spanish, Portuguese) riposo (Italian)
rest (Estonian)	rest	crate, grid	puhkus
restar (Spanish)	(to) rest	to subtract, deduct	descansar, reposar
rester (French) restare (Italian)	(to) rest	to stay; to remain	riposare (Italian)
resumen (Spanish) résumé (French) resumo (Portuguese) Rest may refer to: rest (fitness), a period of relative inactivity to allow recovery and growth. ...	resume (to continue)	summary	reanudar (Spanish) retomar (Portuguese)
Retard (German)	retard	sustained release pill	geistig Behinderter, Spasti (slang), Mongo (slang)
Retard (French)	retard	delay	attardé
revolver (Spanish)	revolver	to mix	revólver, pistola con tambor
rij (Dutch)	ray (phonetic false friend)	queue (noun)	straal
rijp (Dutch)	rape (phonetic false friend)	mature, ready (for something), hoar frost	verkrachten (verb), verkrachting (noun)
riporto (Italian)	report	hair combed over a bald spot	rapporto (n.)
riski (Finnish)	risky	(of persons) strong
rok (Afrikaans)	rock	dress (clothing)	rots, klip
rok (Dutch) Rock (German) Mental retardation (also called mental handicap[1] and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act 1983, mental impairment and severe mental impairment[2]) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills (milestones) during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual... Sustained-release (SR), extended-release (ER, XR, or XL), time-release or timed-release, controlled-release (CR), or continuous-release (CR or Contin) pills are tablets or capsules formulated to dissolve slowly and release a drug over time. ... Mental retardation (also called mental handicap[1] and, as defined by the UK Mental Health Act 1983, mental impairment and severe mental impairment[2]) is a term for a pattern of persistently slow learning of basic motor and language skills (milestones) during childhood, and a significantly below-normal global intellectual... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	rock	skirt (clothing)	rots (Dutch) Fels, Stein (German)
rok (Polish)	rock	year	skała
roman (Dutch, French, Norwegian, Romanian, Serbian, Swedish) roman (German) romaani (Finnish) Roman (роман) (Russian) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	Roman	novel	romersk, romer/romerinne (male/female Roman) (Norwegian) roomalainen (Finnish) Romeins (Roman empire), Romaans (Roman languages or architecture) (Dutch) Römer (person), römisch (adjective) (German)
romans (романс) (Russian)	romance	romantic song	Roman
romanzo (Italian)	romance	novel	storia d'amore
romi (ρώμη) (Greek)	Rome	robustness	Romi (Ρώμη)
romp (Afrikaans)	romp	skirt (clothing)	baljaar, jakker
room (Afrikaans, Dutch)	room	cream	kamer
rot (Afrikaans)	rot	rat	vrot (noun and verb), ontbind (verb)
rot (Catalan)	rot	burping	podrir (verb)
rún (Irish) rùn (Scottish Gaelic) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Catalan IPA: (catalÃ IPA: or []) is a Romance language, the national language of Andorra, and a co-official language in the Spanish autonomous communities of Balearic Islands, Catalonia and Valencia, and in the city of LAlguer in the Italian island of Sardinia. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	run, rune	secret, beloved	ruith (to run), rann (rune) (Scottish Gaelic)

// Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...

S

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
sad (Polish)	sad	orchard	smutny
sad (сад) (Russian)	sad	garden	grstnyj (грустный)
sad (Croatian)	sad	now	tužan
saikou (最高) (Japanese)	psycho	the best
sake (酒)(Japanese)	sake	Japanese rice wine, alcohol	tame
sale (Estonian)	sale	slender	müük
Sale (Finnish)	sale	nickname for Sauli	alennusmyynti, ale
sale (French)	sale	dirty	vente
sale (Italian)	sale	salt	vendita
sale (Spanish)	sale	goes out	venta
sale (Polish)	sale	rooms	sprzedaż
salivit (Latin)	salivate	he/she/it jumped
salon (French, Polish)	salon	living room	salon (French, Polish)
salto (σάλτο) (Greek)	salt	leap (noun)	alati (αλάτι)
salvaje (Spanish)	salvage	savage, wild	recuperar, salvar (v.)
salve (Latin)	salve	hello	linimentum
same (Polish)	same	(they (non-virile)): alone, themselves	taki sam
sang (French)	sang	blood	chantait
sanoma (Finnish)	son of a... (phonetic false friend)	message	...n penikka
sanità (Italian)	sanity	health	salute mentale, sanità mentale
santa	Santa (Santa Claus)	sand	joulupukki
santa (leda) (Croatian)	Santa (Santa Claus)	iceberg	Djed Mraz
scannare (Italian)	scan	to skin	scandire, scannerizzare / esaminare attentamente (as in examine minutely)
scarpa (Italian)	scarf	shoe	sciarpa
schema (σχήμα) (Greek)	scheme	shape; format; figure	schedio (σχέδιο)
schinken (German)	chicken	ham	Huhn
scolaro (Italian)	scholar	schoolboy	studioso, persona colta
scope (Italian)	scope	brooms	scopo, obiettivo (aim); gamma, raggio, estensione (range)
sechs (German) sex (Swedish) seks (Norwegian) sex (Interlingua, Latin) sexto (Portuguese, Spanish) See Also: Antisocial Personality Disorder Theoretically, psychopathy is a three-faceted disorder involving interpersonal, affective and behavioral characteristics. ... Sake barrels at Itsukushima Shrine. ... A contract of sale is a legal act that involves an exchange of goods, services or property to be exchanged from seller (or vendor) to buyer (or purchaser) for an agreed upon value in money (or money equivalent) paid or the promise to pay same. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... Joulupukki is the Finnish name for Santa Claus. ... A typical depiction of Santa Claus. ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...	sex	six; sixth (Portuguese, Spanish)	sex (Swedish, Norwegian) Sex, Geschlecht (German) sexus (Latin) sexo (Interlingua, Portuguese, Spanish) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... This article is about the auxiliary language created by the International Auxiliary Language Association. ...
secte (French) Sekte (German) secta (Spanish) sekta (Serbian) Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	sect	cult, sect
sed (Spanish)	said (phonetic false friend)	thirst	dijó (third-person past tense)
see (Estonian)	(to) see	this, that	nägema
See (German)	see	See (m.): lake; See (f): sea	sehen (v.)
sei (Finnish)	say	black cod	sanoa
Seide (German)	side	silk	Seite
Seite (German)	site	page	Ort, Stelle
-seksi, as a suffix (Finnish)	sexy	The suffix -nen in translative, e.g. Räikkönen -> Räikköseksi	seksikäs
Sekt (German)	sect	champagne, sparkling wine	Sekte
semester (Swedish)	semester	vacation	termin
Sensation (German)	sensation	blowoff, scorcher	Gefühl
sensibel (German) sensibile (Italian) sensible (French, Spanish) sensível (Portuguese) This article is about religious groups. ... This article does not discuss cult in its original meaning. ... This article is about religious groups. ... Phonetic (pho-NET-ic) is a nationwide voicemail-to-text messaging service available for most digital mobile phones in which a subscriber is provided a custom voice mailbox for the purpose of receiving all incoming voice messages as actual transcribed text for reading via short messaging (also known as SMS... Binomial name Hutton, 1875 The black cod or smallscaled cod, Notothenia microlepidota, is a marine cod icefish in the genus Notothenia with distribution ranging from southern New Zealand to sub-Antarctic seas, although they have also been fished off the Great Australian Bight, Chile, and round the Falkland Islands, on... This declension (case) indicates a change in state of a noun, with the general sense of becoming X or change to X. In the Finnish language, this is the counterpart of the Essive case, with the basic meaning of a change of state. ... Kimi-Matias RÃ¤ikkÃ¶nen (pronounced ) (born October 17, 1979 in Espoo, Finland) is a race car driver, currently driving for Scuderia Ferrari. ... Champagne is often consumed as part of a celebration Champagne is a sparkling wine produced by inducing the in-bottle secondary fermentation of wine to effect carbonation. ... For other uses, see Wine (disambiguation). ...	sensible	sensitive	vernünftig (German) sensato, razonable (Spanish) sensato, razoável (Portuguese)
sentence (French) sentença (Portuguese)	sentence (Gramm.)	1. verdict (also Fr. "verdict") 2. precept, maxim (also Fr. précepte, maxime)	phrase (French); frase (Portuguese)
sentimiento (Spanish)	sentiment	feeling (physical)
shé (舌) (Mandarin)	she	tongue	tā (There are both masculine and feminine written forms, and both are pronounced "tā".)
shopping (Portuguese)	shopping	mall	fazer compras
side (Finnish)	side [said]	bandage, bond, tie, blindfold	puoli
Sie (German)	see	you (formal), she, they	sehen (v.)
siin (spoken Finnish) siin (Estonian) This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ... For other uses, see Tongue (disambiguation). ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ...	seen	here; in Estonian also there and computer bus	(Finnish): nähnyt (subject), nähty (object); Estonian: näinud (subject), nähtud (object)
silli (Finnish)	silly	herring	typerä
Sinn (German)	sin	sense, mind, meaning, acceptance, aesthesia, signification, tenor, appreciation	Sünde
sin (Irish, Scottish Gaelic)	sin	that (referring to something closer in proximity)	cionta, peacadh (Scottish Gaelic)
sin (Serbian, Croatian) syn (сын) (Russian) PCI Express bus card slots (from top to bottom: x4, x16, x1 and x16), compared to a traditional 32-bit PCI bus card slot (bottom) In computer architecture, a bus is a subsystem that transfers data or power between computer components inside a computer or between computers, and a bus... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	sin	son	grekh (грех) (Russian) grijeh (Croatian)
sin (Spanish)	sin	without	pecado
sin (Swedish, Norwegian)	sin	"one's own", genitive reflexive pronoun	synd (both languages)
sin (spoken Finnish)	sin	short for sinne, "into there"	synti
sin; 신; 神 (Korean)	sin	god	jwe; 죄
since (Lojban)	since	snake	ba lo nu (after), ki'u lo nu (because)
sissi (Finnish)	sissy	long-range reconnaissance commando; see Sissi (Finnish guerrilla)	raukkis
sit (spoken Finnish)	sit	then	istua
sky (Norwegian)	sky	cloud	himmel
slang (Afrikaans, Dutch)	slang	snake	straattaal, slang (Dutch)
slang (Dutch, Swedish), slange (Norwegian) â€œOneselfâ€ redirects here. ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ... Lojban (IPA ) is a constructed human language based on predicate logic. ... Sissi is a Finnish term for light infantry which conducts guerrilla warfare operations behind enemy lines. ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	slang	hose (in Norwegian it also means snake)	slang(språk), slang(ord) (Swedish)
sled (след) (Russian)	sled	footprint, trail	sani (сани)
Slip (German) slip (Italian)	slip (clothing)	knickers, panties (It's a pseudo-anglicism.)	Unterrock, Unterkleid (German) sottoveste (clothing) (Italian) This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
slips (Swedish)	slip (clothing)	tie (men's clothing)	underkjol
slot (Danish, Dutch) slott (Swedish) slott (Norwegian)	slot	castle	springa, myntinkast (Swedish)
slot (Dutch)	slot	lock	gleuf, sleuf
slut (Swedish) slutt (Norwegian)	slut	end, finish	slampa (Swedish) slut (Norwegian)
slut (Romanian)	slut	ugly	târfă, femeie şleampătă,
smal ((Dutch)) schmal (German) smal (Norwegian)	small	narrow	klein (Dutch, German) liten (Norwegian)
Smoking (German) smoking (Dutch, Portuguese, French, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Swedish) esmoquín, smoking (Spanish) σμόκιν(smokin) (Greek)	smoking	dinner jacket (Br.), tuxedo (U.S.); but not smoking jacket (another case of pseudo-anglicism)	rauchen, räuchern (German) fumando (Spanish, Italian) en fumant (French) palenie (Polish) rökning (Swedish) roken (Dutch) κάπνισμα (Greek) The cigarette is the most common method of smoking tobacco. ... Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and U.S. President Ronald Reagan wearing black tie with wives in Quebec, Canada, March 18, 1985. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...
Soda (Czech)	soda	sparkling water	limonáda
Sodomie (German) sodomi (Norwegian)	sodomy	bestiality	Analverkehr (German)
soet (Afrikaans) søt (Norwegian) FranÃ§ois Elluin, Sodomites provoking the wrath of God, from Le pot pourri de Loth (1781). ... Look up Bestiality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	soot	sweet	roet (Afrikaans) sot (Norwegian)
сок (sok) (Bulgarian) sok (Polish) sok (сок) (Russian)	sock	juice	чорап (Bulgarian) skarpetka (Polish) nosok (носок) (Russian)
sulsa; 설사 (Korean)	salsa	diarrhea
son (Afrikaans)	son	sun	seun
son (Spanish)	son	(they) are; song	hijo
son (French)	son	sound; bran; his/her (masculine thing possessed)	fils
son (сон) (Russian)	son	sleep	syn (сын)
sopa (Spanish)	soap	soup	jabón
sopa (Mexican Spanish)	soup	sopa seca ("dry soup"), a rice or pasta dish served as a side dish or first course; soup (less common)	caldo, sopa aguada ("wet soup")
soportar (Spanish), supporter (French)	support	can stand, deal with	ayudar (Spanish), soutenir (French)
sou (そう) (Japanese)	so	in that way	sou
soy (Spanish)	soya soybean	(I) am	soya, soja
spiti (σπίτι) (Greek)	spit	home	ftino (φτύνω - to spit); ftima (φτίμα - spit (noun)); souvla (σούβλα - for roasting)
spy (Swedish)	spy	vomit, throw up	spionera
square (French)	square	public open space in towns	carré
stage (French)	stage	internship	étage, scène
star (Dutch) starr (German) Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea (see spelling differences), is a condition in which the sufferer has frequent watery, loose bowel movements (from the Greek word Î´Î¹Î¬ÏÏÎ¿Î¹Î±; literally meaning through-flowing). Acute infectious diarrhea is a common cause of death in developing countries (particularly among infants), accounting for 5 to 8 million deaths... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Binomial name (L.) Merr. ... Souvla (Greek: ÏƒÎ¿ÏÎ²Î»Î±), also called sougla (Greek: ÏƒÎ¿ÏÎ³Î»Î±) is a popular dish from the island of Cyprus. ...	star	rigid	ster (Dutch) Stern (German)
Star (German)	star	starling	Stern
stare (Italian)	stare	to stay, to be	sguardo fisso (noun), osservare (verb)
stare (Polish)	stare	old (girls or things)	spojrzenie
stark (German, Swedish)	stark	strong	bar, naken (Swedish) nackt (German)
stanza (Italian)	stanza	room	strofa
stem (Afrikaans, Dutch)	stem	voice	stam, steel stingel (Afrikaans)/stengel (Dutch) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
step (Chumash)	step	flea
stor (Swedish, Norwegian)	store	big, large	affär, butik (Swedish) forretning, butikk (Norwegian) Rafael, a Chumash in the 1800s Pre-contact distribution of the Chumash The Chumash are a Native American tribe who historically inhabit mainly the southern coastal regions of California, in the vicinity of what is now Santa Barbara and Ventura, extending as far south as Malibu. ...
stout (Dutch)	stout	naughty	stout
stol (Swedish, Norwegian) Stuhl (German)	stool	chair	pall (Swedish) Hocker (German)
strafen (German) straffa (Swedish)	strafe	punish	beschießen (German)
sum (Latin)	sum	I am	summa
sumāto (スマート) (Japanese)	smart	thin, slim, having a nice figure	atama ga ii （頭がいい）
sun (spoken Finnish)	sun /san/	your	aurinko
superbo (Italian) superbus (Latin) Addition is one of the basic operations of arithmetic. ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ... For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ...	superb	proud, haughty, arrogant, overbearing	ottimo, maestoso, stupendo, splendido (but also superbo--it's a partial false friend)
supplier (French)	to supply	to beg, to beseech	fournir; être fournisseur de
surgeon (French)	surgeon	basal shoot, sucker	chirurgien
sveti, sweti (several Slavic languages, e.g.:) święty (Polish) sveti (свети) (Bulgarian) Countries where a West Slavic language is the national language Countries where an East Slavic language is the national language Countries where a South Slavic language is the national language The Slavic languages (also called Slavonic languages), a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup...	sweaty	Saint	spocony (Polish) потен/-на/-но (Bulgarian)
svamp (Swedish	swamp	mushroom, fungus	träsk (Swedish)
svimma (Swedish	swim	failt	simma (Swedish)
simpatic (Romanian) simpatico (Italian) simpático (Spanish, Portuguese) sympathique (French) sympathiek (Dutch) sympathisch (German) sympatyczny (Polish) sympatisk (Swedish, Norwegian) simpatičan (Croatian, Serbian) simpatia (Esperanto) simpatic (Romansh) Perspiration (also called sweating or sometimes transpiration) is the production and evaporation of a fluid, consisting primarily of water as well as a smaller amount of sodium chloride (the main constituent of table salt), that is excreted by the sweat glands in the skin of mammals. ... For other uses, see Saint (disambiguation). ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... This article is about the language. ... Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. ...	sympathetic	likeable, friendly	medfølende (Norwegian) compasivo, comprensivo (Spanish) mitfühlend (German) współczujący (Polish) sympatisk (Swedish - half false friend) meelevend, meevoelend (Dutch) suosjećajan (Croatian) kunsentema (Esperanto) cumpassiuneivel (Romansh) This article is about the language. ... Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is one of the four national languages of Switzerland, along with German, Italian and French. ...

T

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
tablette (French)	tablet	(rectanglar) block of a solid material, such as chocolate; specifically means lozange (phamaceutical preparation)	comprimé
Tag (German) tag (Swedish)	tag	German: day Swedish: take! Look up tag in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	Etikett (label), Markierung (mark), Fangen (the game) (German) lapp, kull/tafatt (the game) (Swedish)
tame (為) (Japanese)	tame	sake	飼いならす (kainarasu)
tikki, täkki, takki, tukki (Finnish)	tick [tik], tack [täk], tuck [tak]	stitch, quilt, jacket, log, respectively	tick: punkki (the Ixodidae or Argasidae insect); tack: nupi; tuck: pienennysleikkaus (in plastic surgery)
taimi (Finnish)	time /taim/	sapling	aika
talon (Finnish)	talon	of the house	raatelukynsi
talon (Polish)	talon	coupon, voucher	pazur, szpon
talli (Finnish)	tally (n.)	garage, stable	luku (n.)
tanner (Finnish)	tanner	ground (cf. the cognate tundra)	nahkuri
tar (Swedish, Norwegian)	tar	takes	tjära, beck (Swedish), tjære (Norwegian) TAME (LÃnea AÃ©rea del Ecuador) is an airline based in Quito, Ecuador. ... A male Ixodes ricinus tick (smaller) copulating with a female tick (larger) Ixodid or hard ticks are ticks of the family Ixodae. ... Argasid or cuddly ticks are ticks of the family Argasidamiousomousoan. ... For other uses, see Tundra (disambiguation). ...
tasto (Italian), Taste (German)	taste	key (on a keyboard)	gusto (Italian), Geschmack (German)
tarra (Finnish)	tar	sticker	terva
táxi (τάξη) (Greek)	taxi	class (grade), classroom	taxí (ταξί)
tekniikka (Finnish)	technique ([tek'niik])	usually "technology" as a discipline	(työ)tekniikka, tekotapa
teippi (Finnish)	tape	adhesive tape	nauha
teli (Finnish)	telly /teli/	floe, bogie	telkkari
tempo (Portuguese)	tempo (flow)	weather, time	rapidez, fluidez
tempto (Latin)	to tempt	to try, to attempt
ten (天) (Japanese)	ten	sky, Buddhist heaven	十 (juu/too)
ten (Spanish)	ten	take! (imperative tense)	diez
ten (Polish)	ten	this	dziesięć
tie, tai (Finnish)	tie [tai]	tie "road", tai "or"	sitoa, solmia (verb); solmio (cravat)
Tier (German)	tier	animal	Schicht
tiili (Finnish)	teal /tiil/	brick	tavi (bird)
to (Polish) to (Serbian) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Modern neckties, shown here tied as if they were on a person, may be found in a plethora of colours and designs. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	to (in writing)	this, that	do (Polish)
toboggan (French)	toboggan	chute, slide	traîneau
toilette (French)	toilet	personal hygene	cabinet
tóin (Irish), tòin (Scots Gaelic)	ton, tonne (a measure of weight)	arse (UK), ass (US)	tonna (Irish), tunna (Scots Gaelic)
toll (Scots Gaelic)	toll	hole, cavity; (to) drill, (to) bore	càin, cìs
toll (German)	toll	great, cool (colloquial), crazy, mentally disturbed, simple(-minded)	Abgabe
topikos (τοπικός) (Greek)	topical	local	epikairos (επίκαιρος)
tort (Polish)	tort	birthday cake, layer cake, wedding cake	delikt
trapp (Norwegian)	trap	stairway	felle
travel (Norwegian)	travel	busy	reise
trampa (Spanish)	tramp	trick/trap	vagabunda/o, zorra
traslado (Spanish, Portuguese)	translate, translation, etc.	(noun) transfer, move, relocation, transportation between two relatively nearby points	verb: traducir (Sp.), traduzir (Pt.) noun: traducción (Sp.), tradução (Pt.)
traversa (τραβέρσα) (Greek)	traverse	crossbar	perasma (πέρασμα - (noun))
travesti (τραβεστί) (Greek)	travesty	transvestite	diakomodisi (διακωμώδηση)
tre (Italian) tre (Swedish) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Arse is an English term referring to the buttocks, first recorded circa 1400 (in arce-hoole) and is commonly used in English speaking countries such as the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, parts of Canada and former parts of the British Empire. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... Not to be confused with torte, an iced cake. ... A trap is a device or tactic intended to harm, capture, detect, or inconvenience an intruder. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Tramp (disambiguation). ...	tree	three	albero träd
tri (Welsh) tri (три) (Russian) Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ...	tree	three	colfen derevo (дерево)
triviale (Italian)	trivial	vulgar, offensive, coarse	banale, ovvio
trombone (French)	trombone	trombone, or paperclip
trépasser (French)	trespass	to die	dépasser
truc (French)	truck	stuff	camion
truculent (French)	truculent	colorful, energetic	féroce, cruel
trukki (Finnish)	truck	fork-lift truck	rekka, rekka-auto
true (Norwegian)	true	threaten, menace	sann, ekte, rett
tu (Polish) tu (Serbian) The trombone is a musical instrument in the brass family. ... Small metal paperclip Another example of a paperclip. ... When someone sincerely agrees with an assertion, they might claim that it is the truth. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	to (in pronunciation)	there
tu (French, Scots Gaelic, Italian, Portuguese) tú (Irish, Spanish) thu (Scots Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ... // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...	to, two	you (singular, familiar)	deux (French), dos (Spanish), due (Italian) dois (m), duas (f) Portuguese dá (Irish), dhà, dà (Scots Gaelic) // Scottish Gaelic (GÃ idhlig) is a member of the Goidelic branch of Celtic languages. ...
tuin (Afrikaans, Dutch)	town	garden	dorp
toi (spoken Finnish; "tuo" in standard language)	toy [toi]	that	leikkikalu, lelu
t'oi (台) (Hakka)	toy	tower

Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article deals with features of the spoken Finnish language, specifically how it is spoken in Greater Helsinki capital region and the cities in the Central Finnish dialectal area, such as JyvÃ¤skylÃ¤, Lahti, HyvinkÃ¤Ã¤, and HÃ¤meenlinna. ... A teddy bear A toy is an object used in play. ... Hakka is one language in the family of languages known as Chinese. ... A teddy bear A toy is an object used in play. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

U

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
último (Spanish, Portuguese)	ultimate	final, last, previous	máximo, absoluto
Unterarm (German)	underarm	forearm	Achsel
Unterstand (German)	(to) understand	shelter; dugout; bunker	verstehen

For the bowling style in cricket, see underarm bowling. ... // The Human Forearm The forearm is the structure on the upper limb, between the elbow and the wrist. ... Look up understanding in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... House at CÃºcuta, Colombia A house is a building typically lived in by one or more people. ... Bunkers in Albania A bunker is a defensive military fortification. ...

V

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
vagina (Latin)	vagina	sheath, scabbard
van (Afrikaans)	van	surname	afleweringsvoertuig, paneelwa
van (Dutch)	van	of (cf. University of Harvard)	busje, bestelwagen
van (Spanish)	van	they go	furgoneta, camión (colloq.)
van (Hungarian)	van	is	furgon
van (Croatian, Serbian)	van	out, outside	kamionet, kombi
vann (Estonian)	van	bathtub	furgoon
vann (Norwegian)	van	water	van, varebil
vazo (βάζω) (Greek)	vase	to put; to set	βάζο
VD (verkställande direktör) (Swedish)	VD (venereal disease)	CEO (chief executive officer)	sexuellt överförbar sjukdom (Swedish)
ventilateur (French), Ventilator (German)	(medical) ventilator	fan	insufflateur (French), Beatmungsgerät (German)
veri (Finnish), (Estonian)	very	blood	hyvin (Finnish), väga (Estonian)
versatile (French)	versatile	capricious	polyvalent, complet
vet (Dutch, Afrikaans)	vet(erinarian)	fat	dierenarts (Dutch), veearts (Afrikaans)
veteran (Swedish)	veteran (war veteran)	experienced sportsperson, age class participant	krigsveteran
vi (Serbian) вы (vy) (Russian) Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	we (in reading)	you	мы (my) (Russian)
via (Latin)	via	road, street, way	per
via (βία) (Greek)	via	force, violence	meso (μέσω)
viin (Estonian)	wine	vodka (genitive: viina),(I'm)takeing, Vienna (gen.: Viini)	vein
viina (Finnish)	wine	any distilled beverage, incl. liqueurs and vodka;	viini
vila (Croatian, Serbian)	villa	fairy	vila (with a different accent)
villa (Estonian)	villa	may also be wool in a genitive case, otherwise villa as it is in English
villa (Finnish)	villa	wool	huvila
villa (Swedish)	villa	detached house, (villa)	romersk villa (Roman villa), (lyx)villa (modern villa) (Swedish)
vink (Swedish, Norwegian) vinkki (Finnish) For other uses, see Latin (disambiguation). ... Vodka bottling machine, Shatskaya Vodka Shatsk, Russia Vodka (Polish: wÃ³dka, Russian: Ð²Ð¾Ð´ÐºÐ°) is one of the worlds most popular distilled beverages. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... A distilled beverage is a consumable liquid containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol) purified by distillation from a fermented substance such as fruit, vegetables, or grain. ... Bottles of strawberry liqueur A liqueur is a sweet alcoholic beverage, often flavoured with fruits, herbs, spices, flowers, seeds, roots, plants, barks, and sometimes cream. ... Serbian (; ) is one of the standard versions of the Shtokavian dialect, used primarily in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and by Serbs in the Serbian diaspora. ...	wink	hint, wave (salutation)	blink (noun), blinka (verb) (Swedish), blunk (noun), blunke (verb) (Norwegian), vilkkua (Finnish)
vink (Dutch, Afrikaans)	wink	finch (bird)	knipogen (verb, Dutch), knipoog (noun, Dutch; noun and verb Afrikaans)
volta (βόλτα) (Greek)	Volta, volt	stroll, ride	volt (βολτ)
vrist (Swedish)	wrist	ankle	handled

Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... For other meanings, see Finch (disambiguation). ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... The Adome bridge crosses the Volta river south of the Akosombo Dam Volta is a river in central and western Africa that drains into the Gulf of Guinea. ... In human anatomy, the wrist is the flexible and narrower connection between the forearm and the palm. ... For a review of anatomical terms, see Anatomical position and Anatomical terms of location. ...

W

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
wanken (German)	(to) wank	to sway; to succumb; to stagger (esp. drunkenly)	wichsen
wanna (Polish) Wanne (German) Woman masturbating, 1913 drawing by Gustav Klimt. ...	contraction of "want to"	bath (tub)	chcieć (Polish) will (German)
war (German)	war	was	Krieg
was (Afrikaans)	was	laundry; to wash	was
was (Dutch)	was	laundry	was
was (German)	was	what	war
was Polish	was	Genitive of wy (you in plural)	m był; f była; n było
Webseite (German)	web site	web page	Internet-Auftritt, Internet-Präsenz (actually Website, Web-Seite and Homepage are usually used synonym in German)
weil (German)	while	because	während
weinen (German)	(to) whine	to cry	jammern
wer (German)	where	who	wo
Welt (German)	welt	world	Striemen
wet (Afrikaans, Dutch)	wet	law	nat
Wette (German)	wet	bet	naß
weit (German)	white	wide	weiß
will (German) vill (Swedish) vil (Norwegian) wil (Dutch) For other uses, see War (disambiguation). ... Afrikaans is a West Germanic language mainly spoken in South Africa and Namibia. ... The genitive case is a grammatical case that indicates a relationship, primarily one of possession, between the noun in the genitive case and another noun. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...	will (law), will (vb.)	I/he/she/it wants, want, wants (Swedish) In the common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person (the testator) regulates the rights of others over his property or family after death. ...	German: Testament (last will and testament); Wille (having the will to do sth.); ich werde, du wirst, er wird, wir werden, ihr werdet, sie werden (auxiliary of the future tense). ; Swedish: ett testamente (last will and testament); ska(ll) (auxiliary of the future tense). Norwegian: testamente (last will and testament); skal (auxiliary of the future tense). Dutch: testament (last will and testament); wil, wilskracht (having the will to do sth.); zal, zullen (auxiliary of the future tense).
wimper (Afrikaans, Dutch) Wimper (German)	wimper	eyelash	German: wimmern (person), winseln (dog)
winkel (Afrikaans, Dutch)	winkle	shop
Winkel (German)	winkle	angle	die Strandschnecke
winken (German)	wink	to wave	zwinkern
wo (German)	who, woe	where	wer; Sorge
wǒmen (Mandarin)	women	we, us	nǚrénmen
worst (Dutch) Wurst (German) Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Look up Wiktionary:Swadesh lists for Afrikaans and Dutch in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Winkle is the usual name in Britain for the common periwinkle, a mollusc often eaten in England. ... Winkle is the usual name in Britain for the common periwinkle, a mollusc often eaten in England. ... This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ...	worst	sausage	slechtste, ergst schlecht(e)ste, schlimmste (German)

X

Y

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
yeia (γεια); yia (για) (Greek)	yah (= yes)	(followed by with "σου" or "σας") hello/goodbye; for	nai (ναι)
yelo (γελώ) (Greek)	to yellow	to deceive; to let down; to laugh at	kitrinos (κίτρινος)
yo (Spanish)	yo	I	que tal
yǒu (Mandarin)	you	to have	nǐ

This article is on all of the Northern Chinese dialects. ...

Z

Non-English word	Which resembles English	But actually means	For an equivalent of the English word use
zesti (ζέστη) (Greek)	zesty	warm (feminine)

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