False friend example: West and South Slavic "yahoda" x Hebrew "yehudi."

**KuriousKatKommittee** · 07-22-2019, 01:45 AM

"Let's go squeeze us some yehodis until the juice comes out" in 19th century Eastern Europe never sounded more amgiuous lmfao.

From Pre-Slavic *ṓˀgadāˀ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *ṓˀgāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ógeh₂. (berry)

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Recon...o-Slavic/agoda
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Yehudi

Funny how the current Slavic (West Slavs; East Slavs use "yevrei.") and Hungarian word for Jews sounds like you want to pronounce the word shit but you have bricks fall from the sky right on your head so "zhit" comes out of your mouth instead.

[fade in: angry village mob scene]

• "Vasily, you can't hurt the plum people! They're good people (who, sure, can't help murdering our god sometimes while at the same time were nowhere near him because they are actually Turks from Mongolia. Wait, converted Romans. No, scratch that, half-Greek half-Lebanese. Japanese. We'll polish it off somehow)!"
• "Wrong, Xynta Pedalovich, they are SHIT people. Shit, I tell you. Throw the Plums down the well so my Poland can be free."