Otoño and Autumn
Otoño doesn’t sound much like its English translation, fall (the season). But if we think of the less common synonym, Autumn, then the pattern becomes a bit clearer. Both come from the Latin for the...
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Daño, Spanish for “damage”, comes from the Latin for the same: damnum. From the same root we get both the English condemn and damn. But what happened to that missing ‘m’? Interestingly, the Latin m-n...
View ArticleSueño and Insomnia
Sueño (Spanish for “dream”) and insomnia come from the same root: the Latin somnus, meaning, “sleep.” The evolution is easy to spot if we remember that the -mn- sound in Latin usually transformed into...
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