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No, it's documented, as is tempura. It's like pancakes: you make them before the time of fasting. "The Time of X" in Spanish is "tempora X" and I would bet Port
by lproven 6mo ago
No, it's documented, as is tempura. It's like pancakes: you make them before the time of fasting. "The Time of X" in Spanish is "tempora X" and I would bet Portuguese is similar.
There are loads.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_words_of_Portuguese_origin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Japanese_words_of_Port...
- nephihaha 6mo agoGura mie eu.
- card_zero 6mo agoIt's listed there under False cognates. > evidence indicates arigatō has a purely Japanese origin I remain suspicious, though. Maybe what happened was the popularization of an existing Japanese term under the influence of Portuguese Jesuits, since it sounded similar to obrigado?
- nephihaha 6mo agoPerfectly possible. I think I've seen evidence elsewhere of similar but unrelated words influencing each other. For example, round about where I live the Romany word "shan" is used meaning "mean" or "worthless", but it seems to have been influenced by the unrelated "sean" in Gaelic (also pronounced "shan") which means "old". So it's come to mean something worn out as well.
- BalinKing 6mo agoIn general, I think this phenomenon is called "phono-semantic matching": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phono-semantic_matching.