Word of the Day

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

Crazy Spanish vowels

Here I refer as crazy Spanish vowels to those vowels that are not in accordance with cognates in other languages, particularly Romance:

Sp. asamblea, Port. assembléia, It. assemblea, Eng. assembly, Fr. assemblée
Sp. asesinar, Port. assassinar, It. assassinare, Eng. assassinate, Fr. assassiner
Sp. vivir, Port. viver, It. vivere

I'm sure other words will occur to me eventually. It seemed that I had many more yesterday when I thought of starting this post.

1 comment:

světluška said...

It's not a vowel, but I just remembered Spanish estadística, which a D, and Portuguese estatística, Italian statistica, French statistique, English statistics, etc., with a T.