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| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 6185 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 10 10 February 2010 at 7:40am | IP Logged | ||
What a coincidence! I just heard from my teacher earlier today in class that it comes from the French word "pain." It probably doesn't matter too much since they're both Romance languages, but now I'm interested in who's right: a Ph.D holder or Wikipedia. Then again, she didn't know that 'kamsa' came from the Japanese 'kansha,' which of course comes from Chinese... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 10 of 10 10 February 2010 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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パン definitely comes from the Portuguese. This is pretty much common knowledge — Portuguese and Dutch were
the first two Western languages Japan had regular contact with, so much of its basic vocabulary for Western items comes from those languages. However, people sometimes assume the Portuguese loans come from French, and the Dutch loans from English, due to similarities. (Fewer people know, perhaps, that "tempura" also comes from Portuguese.) Edited by Captain Haddock on 10 February 2010 at 5:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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