Re: =SDC= Q20: Triple again
- From: Alec Kojaev <AlecKojaev@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 02:35:03 +0400
On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:29:18 -0700 in
2d7be260-8dd3-42c5-9d74-f54d71832d42@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Jerry
Friedman wrote:
Please give a word of four or more letters that has different meanings
in each of three languages (the way "Gift" means different things in
English and German). I'm referring to the written form of the word. No
transliterations or romanizations. No non-standard spellings. Any
diacritical marks, apostrophes, etc., must be the same in all three, but
differences in initial capitalization are allowed. Bonus Herdwicks for
words longer than four letters, and once a solution is given, you can
still get sheep by giving an answer longer than the previous one posted.
Serious bonus sheep for four or more languages. Got that?
Examples are moderately common, almost any neutrally-looking word might
give you surprises, in one language or another, when you check.
enter:
English: to go into
French: to inoculate
Catalan: integer, entire
Occitan: between
merge:
English: to combine
Italian: (3rd pers.sg. of) to immerse
Romanian: to go
missa:
Latin: Mass
Icelandic: to lose
Swedish: to miss (a target); to be late
molo:
Czech: catwalk
Italian: jetty
Finnish: penis (vulg.)
mutter:
English: to utter indistinctly
Swedish/Norwegian: nut (for bolts)
German (Mutter): mother
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Alec Kojaev
St.Petersburg, Russia [30E18 59N56]
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