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False friend

In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language, but differs significantly in meaning. Examples of false friends include English embarrassed and Spanish embarazada ('pregnant'); English parents versus Portuguese parentes and Italian parenti (the latter two both meaning…

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False friend

Nodes51
Edges50
Triples49
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.039216
Components1

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False friend

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related to External links · 17
False friend → Archived, Category, Der DEnglische Patient, Die Deutschen, Dutch, Englisch, False, Kolumne, Manager Magazin, Peter Littger Archived, Russian, The, Wayback Machine, Wayback MachineFrench/English, Wayback MachineItalian/English, Wayback MachineSpanish/English, WiktionaryAn
related to Semantic change · 10
False friend → American Italian, American Portuguese, English, For, In, Instead, Portuguese, Standard Italian, The American Italian, Weinreich
related to Definition and origin · 7
False friend → Autres Mots, English, False, French, Jules Derocquigny, Maxime Kœssler, The
see also · 4
False friend → Auto-antonymDunglishEquivalence, Chinese, Japanese, List
related to Shared etymology · 3
False friend → If, Language, Sometimes
is a · 1
False friend → word in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language
has cause · 1
False friend → From

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english false meaning friends word languages french friend means words language german italian restricted swedish new original well also portuguese

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
False friendis aword in a different language that looks or sounds similar to a word in a given language0.90text
swapped forms for southinstance ofwhich gives rise to false friends0.80text
south-westinstance ofwhich gives rise to false friends0.80text
ro 'calmness'instance ofthe Swedish original meaning of 'calm' is retained in some related words0.80text
and orolig 'worrisomeinstance ofthe Swedish original meaning of 'calm' is retained in some related words0.80text
anxious'instance ofthe Swedish original meaning of 'calm' is retained in some related words0.80text
literally 'un-calminstance ofthe Swedish original meaning of 'calm' is retained in some related words0.80text
False friendhas causeFrom0.60section
False friendrelated to Definition and originFalse0.60section
False friendrelated to Definition and originThe0.60section
False friendrelated to Definition and originEnglish0.60section
False friendrelated to Definition and originFrench0.60section

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