From: d b
Message: 15499
Date: 2002-09-15
> From: Piotr Gasiorowskimy favorite has always been Latin "habere" and German
> <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
> Subject: Pseudo-cognates
>
> It might be instructive to collect a cautionary list
> of pseudo-cognates, i.e. words so spectacularly
> similar in form and meaning that anyone but a
> linguist (who can _prove_ that they are not related)
> would take a connection for granted. Oft-quoted
> handbook examples include:
>
>
> Any ideas? The condition is that the pseudo-cognacy
> should be due to pure chance (which excludes
> onomatopoeia, nursery words and the like).