beep@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours ago𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵: Water. 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻: Wasser. 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵: Agua. 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻: Acqua. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵:i.imgur.comimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1143arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1127arrow-down1image𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗵: Water. 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻: Wasser. 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵: Agua. 𝗜𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻: Acqua. 𝗙𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵:i.imgur.combeep@piefed.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 hours agomessage-square23fedilinkfile-text
cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/shit/p/1409120/english-water-german-wasser-spanish-agua-italian-acqua-french
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-218 hours agoAre you sure that the Q is supposed to be read like a K? It does not seem to be the case in other neo-latin languages such as Italian and IIRC Spanish Edit: i searched and it seems that the sound of Q could’ve been /kʷ/ which makes sense i am not a latin expert– i barelly know it in fact, btw
minus-squareFishFace@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·18 hours agoYes, Latin qu was pronounced /kʷ/, which became straight /kw/ in English. I don’t know which it was in Old French. Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
minus-squarehikaru755@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 hour ago Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/ Same in German
minus-squareAxolotl@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours ago Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/. I can confirm this as native speaker :3
Are you sure that the Q is supposed to be read like a K? It does not seem to be the case in other neo-latin languages such as Italian and IIRC Spanish
Edit: i searched and it seems that the sound of Q could’ve been /kʷ/ which makes sense
i am not a latin expert– i barelly know it in fact, btw
Yes, Latin qu was pronounced /kʷ/, which became straight /kw/ in English. I don’t know which it was in Old French. Italian does have qu which is pronounced /kw/.
Same in German
I can confirm this as native speaker :3