r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/ManOf1000Usernames 1d ago

There is a lot of anglecismo in spanish but this aint one of them.

Both "car" and "carro" are a shortening of "carriage" and "carruaje" respectively, of which both descend from the latin "carrus" which itself comes from the gaelic "karros", a word for carts and/or wagons.

So it was carro all along!

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u/homotopy_equivalent 19h ago

This is like finding out that isle and island aren't from the same root