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Wow, that's a really sneaky "false friend" in Italian! Especially since it even has the meaning of "forest-related" in other Latinic languages, e.g. in French r
by rob74 3mo ago
Wow, that's a really sneaky "false friend" in Italian! Especially since it even has the meaning of "forest-related" in other Latinic languages, e.g. in French route forestière = forest road.
- bonzini 3mo agoForest-related is "forestale" in Italian.
- phikappa 3mo agoI wouldn't call it so much a false friend as forest/foreign (and forfeit and I'm sure a bunch of other words) all coming from the same Latin "foris" root and being semantically related. In Italian, outside is just "fuori". You're a foreigner to what you've forfeited in the forest.