I mean why Germans choose a latin word which means "world", to call the moon ?
Any connection , folks ?
2007-03-20 04:17:14 · 6 answers · asked by citizen high 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
in italian moon is luna and in french is lune. world is le monde in french and il mondo in italian. the english moon stems from old german, since the english language was formed out of saxonic german, old french and scandic. germans had no so much influence from latin as french and italian, so similar words may mean different things.-
ciao...john-john.-
2007-03-20 04:33:55 · answer #1 · answered by John-John 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
German is a N European language with few connections with Latin English is a combination of all so we get a lot of confusing things that Germans or French never have to deal with.
2007-03-20 04:26:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
And as I remember, in Russian world is Mir and peace is Myr so people told once : when Russians from the former SSSR said " we want the peace" they really meant "we want the world" LOL
Just coincidence...
Unfortunately German has too little Latin connections...
2007-03-20 05:04:02 · answer #3 · answered by M.M.D.C. 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Steve Martin once observed about French, "They have a different word for EVERYTHING."
2007-03-20 04:49:24 · answer #4 · answered by open4one 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
And yet we all have nearly the same word for month: Monat, mese, and mois - go figure.
2007-03-20 04:56:16 · answer #5 · answered by hznfrst 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, it's just a similar sounding word. take my word.
2007-03-20 10:11:06 · answer #6 · answered by Zoe 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋