• cepelinas@sopuli.xyz
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    7 days ago

    Ok so a funny thing is that in my language debilas just means someone really stupid it is an insult but is it a coincidence or not because the roman empire had only traded amber with us. And if that is the case I wonder how when trading amber someone diverted the conversation to twinks so many times that it became part of the language. Or it is just a coincidence.

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      6 days ago

      The Lithuanian meaning is the same as in English, French, Russian, Finnish, etc. The meaning has changed during the two millenia and has then been borrowed into Lithuanian.

    • Spezi@feddit.org
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      7 days ago

      The translations are in the post, it’s the same word origin. Weak or disabled can also refer to the brain. Its just an adjective.

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        7 days ago

        I understand that but my language isn’t romanic just the thing that these words are similar is strange and kinda funny to me.

        • Spezi@feddit.org
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          7 days ago

          It’s probably not a coincidence. There are tons of words in every language that stem from latin one way or another even in russian. Languages can have tons of different influences over the thousands of years they developed and even today they are changing.