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Any way of finding out where certain words come from?

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Daionii

PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:16 pm


Hope this is in the right place.

Anyway, is there any website or anything that will show you an origin of a word in any language?

I've looked in dictionaries and such but haven't had any luck.
I was wondering because I found it interesting that 'sad' is 'trist' in both Welsh and Norwegian, and I wanted to know exactly where this word, and other words, originally come from >.<
PostPosted: Wed Feb 11, 2009 1:04 pm


Well, triste is sad in French, and I think it is similar in Spanish, so I think that it is probably from latin smile

JeSuisMustapha


Daionii

PostPosted: Mon Feb 16, 2009 1:59 pm


Good old Latin!
It seems so obvious now, really.
I can be so dumb :B
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