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Mens-Sarda
I'm often surprised by certain similarities between certain English / German and Sardinian verbs or words, since in the past centuries, Sardinia had zero contacts with England or Germany, how the heck is possible? Certain common verbs or words seem to have a Latin origin, but others I have no idea
monkey -> moninca
They are related.
monkey (n.)
1520s, likely from an unrecorded Middle Low German *moneke or Middle Dutch *monnekijn, a colloquial word for "monkey," originally a diminutive of some Romanic word, compare French monne (16c.); Middle Italian monnicchio, from Old Italian monna; Spanish mona "ape, monkey."
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Mens-Sarda
to jump -> jumpare, jampare (to cross a river with a jump, to wade a river), normally "to jump" is translated with "brincare"
Could be related.
jump (v.)
1520s, perhaps imitative (compare bump); another theory derives it from words in Gallo-Roman dialects of southwestern France (compare jumba "to rock, to balance, swing," yumpa "to rock"), picked up during English occupation in Hundred Years War. Superseded native leap, bound, and spring in most senses.
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Mens-Sarda
wade -> badu -> guado (Italian) -> vadus (Latin)
Related since Indo-European times.
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Mens-Sarda
to mend (to fix a cloth, a shoe) -> mendare (to fix a roof or to close a hole in the roof), in Italian there is "rammendare" with the same meaning of the English verb -> Latin "emendare" (to fix)
English took it from us.
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Mens-Sarda
to speak -> ispricare (the action of talking, the mouth's movement) -> sprechen (in German), could all of them come from the Latin "explicare" (to explain)? If we take the English verb and we modify it, it seems to match with "explicare", also the pronounce is 100% identical.
EXPLICARE -> (EX)SP(L)EAK(ARE)
In this last word I don't think there is any 'genetic' relationship. Explicare comes from ex- + plicare, meaning to 'un- fold', so the root is plik-, from Indo-European plek-. The English verb has to do with a set of Germanic forms for it.
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