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Dam , here in Turkey "kaka" [caca] literally means "poop" or "to poop". How odd.
by kwonkicker 4y ago
Dam , here in Turkey "kaka" [caca] literally means "poop" or "to poop". How odd.
- geuis 4y agoSimilar root words somewhere in the past. Caca in Spanish means the same thing.
- schoen 4y agoBut the oddity is that Turkish isn't related to the Romance languages.
- Tagbert 4y agoNo, but several of the earlier languages in Anatolia did have Into-European roots as did some of the surrounding languages, such as Persian. It could easily be a loan word. *kakka- also kaka-, Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to defecate." According to Watkins, "imitative of glottal closure during defecation."
- mseepgood 4y ago"Secundinus der Kacker" in German
- kgeist 4y agoKaka means poop in many unrelated languages. It's baby talk: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_talk Another example is "to eat" or "tasty": English yum, Russian nyam etc.
- xeromal 4y agoLots of baby words are shared amongst languages even if they're not related. The most obvious one I see are the variations of baba, papa, dada, etc for dad. My iraqi friends say baba and arabic is certainly not originated from latin.
- robonerd 4y agoThere are certainly some Latin loan words in Arabic; that part of the world was well within the Roman sphere of influence for a long time. For instance: the Arabic ṣirāṭ and English street both come from the Latin word strata.
- xeromal 4y agoOh, I'm sure that. I just meant as a root language I don't believe they share a common ancestor