English: late
Dutch: laat
Afrikaans: laat
Frisian: let
Low German: laat
Norwegian: lat
Danish: lad
Icelandic: latur
Standard German: spät
Wtf Germans?
English: late
Christian Powell
Bentley White
myöhässä
Ian Evans
atode
Logan Adams
>soccer
>calcio
wtf US and italy are you retarded?
James Young
"Soccer" is actually the older term, but I agree, it'd be easier if we just used "football" and "American football".
Xavier Rodriguez
lat means lazy, not late
Daniel Torres
Oh sorry, I was just looking at the descendants of proto-Germanic lataz. I'm now wondering if some of those other words don't mean "late".
Josiah Moore
Obviously you guys wouldn't have something resembling "late".
Andrew Ortiz
Târziu is objectively the best word for late.
Adam Martinez
I assume that's related to words like English "tardy" and Spanish "tarde", right?
Carson Brown
Yes, a weirder relative. It's a bastardization of the Latin "tardivus"
Lincoln Ramirez
Interesting. Doesn't Romanian have a lot of words where D became Z before front vowels?
Brody Johnson
Atrasado :^)
Jace Cook
Indeed. Many Latin words underwent changes. Either "d" became "z" (Latin deus -> Romanian zeu, dicere -> (a) zice / zicere, dies -> zi) or "t" became "ț" (ts - Latin terra -> Romanian țară).
Romanian has an abundance of weird phonetic changes from Latin and a lot of "ts", "sh", "ch" phonemes, which makes people think it's further away from Latin than the rest, but a closer inspection reveals the opposite.
Luis Evans
Very interesting, thanks man.
Owen Cox
No problem. Some of our words' etimologies are pretty dubious when you consider the transformations (i.e: supposedly "înger" comes from the Latin "angelus") but generally we have a solid base.
Connor Evans
Idk, an L to R change isn't that weird, compare Spanish "blanco" with Portuguese "branco".
Chase Fisher
bump
Joseph Murphy
bump
Christian Cox
αργά
Xavier Thomas
Sure, but "an" to "în" and "elus" to "er" seems like a stretch.