In English, the word syringe comes from the French seringue, which itself is borrowed from Latin. Many languages share this origin, including Portuguese (seringa) and …
Syringe
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Eight & Night
The words “eight” and “night” are not etymologically related but phonetically in some languages there are very similar.
Capital cities
Metro Spain
What if Spain’s transport system were a metro transit map? One possibility is shown above. Spain’s transport structure inherited the radial distribution, centered in Madrid, …
National names
Nations’ names might change from language to another. Let’s see the patterns
Hospital
The etymologies of hospital and hotel
Nurse
There are still some languages missing or their etymologies unknown. If you know them, you can comment bellow.
Counting
From eleven to nineteen We can classify languages according to the way numbers from 10 to 19 are composed. Often languages compose numbers higher than …
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