Latin loans are strange.
Okay so canine is a dog in Latin, yet somehow it came to mean a rabbit in Finnish.
Rabbit is kaniini in Finnish.
Another strange thing: why Finnish loaned the word sea from Latin?
Latin (mare)
Finnish (meri)
Why didnt it come from neighboring languages?
Swedish (havet)
Latvian (jura)
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very strange indeed
quite unusual, to say the least
german for 'sea' is 'meer' probably got it from German
IDK mane, just speculating
I didn't know this, thx for info
Kaniini is from Swedish, a loan from Germanic that's a loan from Latin
probably the same case for 'sea'
interesting, i am listening
Can't think of latin loans, but the word kuningas for king is very close to the ancient germanic word kunigazz*, which eventually became king and kung and könig in the germanic languages.
>tfw pure proto-indo-european descent
Konijn or konijntje is rabbit in Dutch.
Meer is lake in Dutch and sea in German.
is the word kaniini in Estonian?
or do you use only the word jänis?
jänes is a rabbit man :DDD
And yes,you can pronounce it like canine.
:D
Big if true
Russian is also similar
It's Morze in polish.
hence the name of Pomerania. Pomorze = by the sea.
what about 'suomi'. Is it also a loan word?
what does 'morze nasze' mean?
Our sea. Though despite Polish having somewhat free word order the more correct form would be "nasze morze"