# chin_eng_coincidences.txt -- 中英語巧合等等
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# Author          : 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson -- http://jidanni.org/
# Created On      : Sep 2000
# Last Modified On: Thu May  1 07:05:00 2008
# Update Count    : 142

This is a list of some Chinese - English coincidences I've run into.
Also I put some various humorous blabber in (but see ./humor.txt).
Certainly most of them are pure coincidence, with no 'same origins'
deep significance. I use some references to some Chinese historical
phonology terms. I didn't ever learn English historical phonology...
therefore things are left at current English face value. I also don't
bother to use my own fancy romanization schemes for S. Min, etc. For
some neat intra-Chinese non-coincidences, see 王力's 同源字典。

焙bei4: Eng. bake, 古之部，just a 轉away from -k in Wang Li's systems.
陋lou4: Eng. low
擰ning2: Eng. wring [if wr were n would match] e.g., wring dry
民min2, {Cantonese, Mandarin]: Eng. people: man
賠pei2: Eng. pay, 費
設S. Min. set [siat]: Eng. set [up]; Setting: 設定!
殺Cant. etc. saat: Eng. -cide (suicide...)
毒Hakka: tuk: Eng. tox[ic]
割S. Min, etc. got: Eng. cut; 刮 also

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Also in http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp007_old_chinese.pdf :
So not just "coincidences" after all:
協S. Min. hiap: Eng. help
給gip Eng. give
視[Cant., S. Min] si: Eng. see
屯tun2: Eng. town
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路lu4: French: rue; English: [king's] row.
       if earlier -ak [looking at 各sound], then Eng: tracK
踏Cant. etc. taap: Eng. stomp, stamp, tamp, tramp,
嚼[use 口+焦][才笑切]Eng: chew
率 Cant. etc. lut: Eng. rate
祿 Eng. Luck
賴不掉 Can't LIE ones' way out of it
物 Cant. mat, Eng. mat(ter)
Cant. mat, eng. what
kap S. Min/ Eng: cup (verb) 蓋...
cocoon 可睏, my wife said of a sleeping bag
依賴 yilai Eng. rely
好笨! how stupid!: same sound hao/how
----------------------funny/boring
不實 butsit [S. Min]: Eng. Bullshit
不過 but go...: Eng. but
the things you 聽說 are mostly "hear-say"
骨氣 gut ki: guts; Mand. guqi: guts[i]
移民 IMMIgration
台語 suh / English suck (林金鈔:廣韻：欶,所角切)
maybe -- 未必
I copied this from somebody else:
色 sik [Cant.]: sex
lynch --  凌遲 (my wife found, maybe just a translation)
Eng: voice, 海陸客家： voi (from wife)
Eng: loss: 落 (from wife)

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4/2001: I think I guessed the original character for the Taiwanese [Minnanyu]
word "gui" meaning "all".  I bet it is Mandarin's ju3 "raise"...
我猜台語‘gui工’ [全日]之 gui 字本字為‘舉’。[常見‘歸’等等。]

I think I guessed the original characters for Cantonese "yi ga"
meaning "now".  I bet it is Mandarin's ru2 [like] jin1 [now].

我猜粵語‘yi ga’ [現在]之本字為‘如今’.  By the way, ‘聽日’
[tomorrow] is clearly from 天光日, compare  客語。
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Could the original character of Hakka's "tet", "pet" be che4 of
(Mandarin) che4di3  徹底 "completely"?  猜其本字。

佢已經死 tet 了 == 佢已經死 徹 了 ??
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Could 間 and 節 be 同源字 ? e.g. Hakka: 時間， 時節
韻母： -n/-d "轉", 聲母 g-/j- 轉 like 枝 ??
Rebutted by Dylan in news:sci.lang 2002-06-23
"Re: Chinese: could jian1 and jie2 be same origin chars?"
2007/2: Wife says origin of 阿舍 A-sia "rich man" is  A-Sir, English.
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我猜台灣所有的文山原名蚊山。

English ampersand "&" looks a little like Chinese `ampersand' "及".
ear:耳(er)
Eng: take, 閩南: 提去
Eng: pan 盤
Eng/Eng: Alzheimer's / Old timer's
宋廚餘（楚瑜）
各 gak,  Vietnamese cac, French chaque
One can't help noticing English Chinese coincidences(?) like e.g.,
http://language.psy.auckland.ac.nz/austronesian/language.php?id=331
to burn bən 焚"dog  kkhwirʔ 犬|Eng. cur|犬Cant. hyun: Eng. hound...
leaf lap 葉; to turn tronʔ 轉; back ppək-s 背;
{en:be|zh:被, (sounds close or same)} hit/hurt/liked...

致癌/治癌國語同音
海:Eng. Sea: h/s relation?
堪Kan1: Eng: can, (Chinese is kam however)
買mai Eng:buy
Pounce:撲,捕
喜(樂):hi(larity)
fer(tilizer) 肥(料)

梅雨季 starts May 1 apparently.