tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post1604732980272641523..comments2024-03-06T07:06:38.928-08:00Comments on JSBlog - Journal of a Southern Bookreader: MimmitRay Girvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-31986336593619331212011-11-02T16:59:41.149-07:002011-11-02T16:59:41.149-07:00It certainly looks like a (rare for Finnish) cogna...It certainly looks like a (rare for Finnish) cognate, but you never know ... Finnish has quite a lot of false cognates and "<a href="http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/suomi/false-friends.html" rel="nofollow">false friends</a>".Ray Girvanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05556764642402680159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8937414969460147900.post-47186119559949445652011-11-02T10:46:45.121-07:002011-11-02T10:46:45.121-07:00Finnish (more so than, for example Swedish) usuall...Finnish (more so than, for example Swedish) usually looks very alien, with few obvious ways in to start decoding it.<br /><br />So,I was pathetically grateful to spot "tanssi" with its promise of links to "tanze" and "dance"! :-)Felixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13179787011325615414noreply@blogger.com