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 DavidStyles Octoglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 3940 days ago 82 posts - 179 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, French, Portuguese, Norwegian Studies: Mandarin, Russian, Swedish, Danish, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 50 12 April 2014 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, so I've now learned!
Of course we also have the word "Companion" in English, from the Latin noun "comes", meaning the same thing. Somehow I missed the association, perhaps because I wasn't looking for it (since it's usually not there to find in Finnish). Now I have my entertaining and otherwise unrelated mental image that has been rendered redundant by a more obvious cognate-based connection. Oh well! :p 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 50 of 50 12 April 2014 at 5:25pm | IP Logged |
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Um no. I mean the Scandinavian word might have had some influence by analogy, but it's short for kämppäkaveri. And kämppä comes from camp, originally meaning hut etc but colloquially just "home".
Makes me remember this place btw. I wonder if they deliberately named it "the lumberjack's hut" where both words have a different colloquial meaning nowadays :D I think we need a separate Finnish word of the day thread, btw. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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