Which English-language consonants are words in other languages?

Question

For example, I think 'w' is a word in Polish. But I'm not sure.

And what are their meanings?

Answer 1

"w" is indeed a word in Polish and means "in"; "z" means "with" in Polish.

Other Slavic languages like Czech, Russian and Slovenian have similar words for the same meanings; depending on the language they can be spelt "v" and "s" respectively. In Russian and other languages written with the Cyrillic script, they have their own spellings: in Russian, "in" is "v" but the Russian letter for it looks like a capital "B", whilst "with" is "S", for which the Russian letter looks like a "C".

The letter "y" means "and" in Spanish and, with a different sound, means "the" in Welsh, but there will always be arguments about whether "y" is, strictly speaking, a consonant.

In some languages, like French and Italian, words can be shortened to a single consonant when they occur before a word beginning with a vowel: in French "L'anglais" - the Englishman - L' means the, and in a sentence such as "je n'ai pas d'argent" - I haven't any money - n' means "not" and d' means "any". In Romanian, "not" can appear as "n-" or "s-" - a single consonant followed by a dash.

In languages like Serbian, some words can appear with a series of consonants with no vowel in: "vrt" means garden.

I am sure other people can think of other examples.

Answer 2

at the same time as i became first getting to charm to close English, I discovered that the vowels are: "A, E, I, O, U, and infrequently Y" hence, "Y" is in simple terms as a lot a vowel because the others are. And in cutting-edge English, you mustn't locate any words without one among those six letters. There are some exceptions that I absolutely have discovered: Crwth - a common Welsh musical device Cwm - A deep hollow interior a mountain (frequently spelled "Combe") you should argue that the be conscious "Pwn" is one, regardless of if it really is in effortless words internet slang which will be stated as, "Pown". different vowel-a lot less internet slang words like "brb" and "g2g" are in simple terms acronyms, and are not frequently stated. and outdoors of that, you should count number Acronyms as words (i.e. FTP, CD-R, DVD), yet they don't look to be frequently seen to face on my own as one unmarried time period, yet truly quite a few that were abbreviated.

Answer 3

I've seen some here on Yahoo! in those questions dealing with Gaelic languages (Scottish Gaelic and Irish Gaelic). If you look for those you may find some. Also in questions on the Welsh language or even on the Welsh people or on Wales where frequently they answer each other in that tongue even on non-language related questions.

Answer 4

The letter "V" is more or less means you in polite form in Russian. Nothing else in my language

Answer 5

Well... "eh" is an "a" for us; that means "huh?" in Canadian. "Si"/ "c" is "yes" in Spanish AND French. (I'm going through the alphabet right now and I can't think of any more, but I'll let you know if I find anything."

Answer 6

In spanish:
Consontant - word - Meaning
"V" = vi = "I saw"
"D" = di = "I gave"
"C" = si = "yes"
"N" = en = "in"
"S" = es = "is"
"I" = ay/hay = "ouch"/ "there is"
"L" = el = "he"

Answer 7

uhm in filipino too.

like
tomorrow, in tagalog or filipino it's called bukas
cat in tagalog is pusa

Answer 8

"y" meand "and" in spanish