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Minor nitpick: bread in portuguese = pão, bread in spanish = pan
by lhorie 14y ago
Minor nitpick: bread in portuguese = pão, bread in spanish = pan
- rev087 14y agoAnd Japan in portuguese = Japão.
- swah 14y agojaponês?
- patio11 14y agoWhile you're correct, it is historically a loanword from Portuguese, not from Spanish. You can verify this in your favorite 国語辞典 if you want to. Like many loanwords, the pronunciation got corrupted a bit. (An example in the other direction: Godzilla, which you'd have to take several stabs at before a Japanese person guessed you meant gojira.)
- icebraining 14y agoÃo is a notoriously difficult diphthong to pronounce for many native speakers of other languages. Wikipedia says that it was even used as a shibboleth in the Paraguayan War, but it doesn't cite sources.
- bane 14y agowhich sounds just enough like "pahng" that a non-portuguese, learning about bread might turn it into "pang" or "bbang" or "bao" depending.