Wiktionary:Foreign Word of the Day/Focus weeks

Every so often, focus weeks are held in the Foreign Word of the Day. During focus weeks, we choose words or phrases with a certain theme, highlight languages with some special features, or show words that have particularly interesting or unusual properties.

Proposals
To propose a focus week, create a new section with the theme of the focus week you’d like to propose. Also be sure to explain a bit more about your proposal if it’s not clear. Once a proposal has been made, 7 words need to be nominated for that focus week. The nomination process is the same as for regular foreign words, and is explained at Foreign Word of the Day/Nominations.

Idioms and proverbs
We should probably feature this more often, there is a wealth of witticisms and funny phrases out there! :) 23:01, 9 September 2012 (UTC)


 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:53, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:53, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:32, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:11, 27 September 2017 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (talk) 15:33, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * . There is also one cite that is actually using the Latin phrase in an English sentence. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:03, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:22, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 12:28, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm having some problems citing this. Google books gives lots of results, but all of them are in English, so they all count as mentions. 20:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Try Usenet. After failing to cite Extremaduran trasantiel with books, I searched GG in desperation and lo! A cite! — Ungoliant (Falai) 20:52, 28 September 2012 (UTC)


 * &#x200b;—msh210℠ (talk) 15:44, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * -Воображение (talk) 01:29, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 13:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 17:08, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 11:06, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 11:12, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:53, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:53, 14 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Vininn126 (talk) 17:57, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 14:34, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 09:31, 21 August 2022 (UTC)

Focus on etymology by language
We could have a week where we feature words in various languages that are all derived from the same attested language (i.e. not a proto-language), preferably terms that aren't used in English. For example, we could have a week of Terms derived from German, like French (from was ist das) and Japanese  (from ). —Angr 10:51, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

From English

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:09, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * This would also be a good fit for the pseudo-anglicism week. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:51, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 02:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 02:03, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 21:21, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:32, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:33, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:50, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 02:45, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This has a very interesting derivation... 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * --EncycloPetey (talk) 01:26, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * This one isn't funny until you say it out loud. 02:21, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 17:03, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * I don't think the pronunciation is right though. 20:22, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 14:35, 4 November 2013 (UTC)
 * —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 08:01, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 08:02, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:13, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:13, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:11, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

From Dutch

 * 01:11, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 09:59, 18 April 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:44, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:45, 25 July 2018 (UTC)

From Slavic languages

 * 01:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 01:28, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * — Mnemosientje (t · c) 18:03, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:56, 26 July 2018 (UTC)

From Low German varieties

 * (MLG: and see the talk page) - -sche (discuss) 01:54, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * or (MLG) - -sche (discuss) 01:54, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (MLG) - -sche (discuss) 02:38, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Nice! This could’ve been the anniversary’s FWOTD. Anyway, it’s cited because mentions count as cites, for LDLs. — Ungoliant (Falai) 04:02, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Now has a pronun and a cite from actual running text (just a sentence in Lesson 1 of a beginners' textbook, though, nothing too fancy!) —Angr 15:30, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * or (GLG) - -sche (discuss) 01:54, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * or (GLG) —Angr 18:38, 19 August 2013 (UTC)
 * (MLG) - -sche (discuss) 02:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * . Can anyone confirm the etymology? — Ungoliant (falai) 23:19, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:16, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * (GLG) - -sche (discuss) 01:54, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * (MLG: meaning "defect", whereas the homonym "marriage" is unrelated) - -sche (discuss) 02:00, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (Falai) 04:37, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Is that from Low German? I would have thought High German... and then I see this note in George Thomas' Linguistic purism: "Jan Hus, saddened by the Germanised Czech of his parishioners, attempted to coin easily decipherable native words [such as] radnice ‘town-hall’ from rada ‘council, counsel’ — ironically considered by some a German loanword" (as if to suggest it actually isn't). - -sche (discuss) 06:07, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually I wanted to nominate the Polish word (having read the English section’s etymology,) but had a brainfart. — Ungoliant (Falai) 06:21, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
 * The -d- strongly suggests it's from Low German rather than High German (which has -t-). —Angr 15:12, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

From German

 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:56, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Important adjectival senses of this word are still lacking. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 09:59, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:17, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:56, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:56, 25 May 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:03, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:48, 25 June 2019 (UTC)

From Spanish

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:41, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 14:07, 8 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:19, 19 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:01, 23 July 2018 (UTC)

From French

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 18:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * , not sure whether this really fits here, but these are two words derived from French in a slangy farewell phrase. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:04, 12 February 2019 (UTC)
 * – Jberkel 10:06, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * MuDavid 栘𩿠 (talk) 02:45, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:49, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * – Jberkel 16:32, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
 * or ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:27, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

From Arabic

 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:58, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (talk) 15:47, 19 January 2019 (UTC) Citation added. פֿינצטערניש (talk) 15:53, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:30, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:20, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:20, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:20, 23 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:12, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:13, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:35, 17 January 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 13:42, 29 June 2019 (UTC)

From Hebrew

 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 22:10, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 04:11, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:39, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
 * This might be better as part of a words-derived-from-Hebrew focus week. פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 19:56, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 22:08, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 22:23, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 22:28, 20 May 2019 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 22:54, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:14, 19 June 2019 (UTC)

From Japanese

 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * or ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , but the etymology could use some elaboration. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * , also means "machete" ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

From Ancient Greek

 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 09:14, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Animals and plants
The isn't a focus-week so much as a collection of related words: words for animals, which have discernible literal meanings. If these are featured, I think their literal meanings should be mentioned, e.g. [[tmakwa]]'s blurb could say "beaver, literally 'tree-cutter'".
 * I see no problem in it being a focus week! And both Meta (1) and I (2) had the FWOTD template display literal meanings before, so it’s fine. — Ungoliant (Falai) 23:45, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I like it. There's a Hebrew word in the general noms section that's like this type as well. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 01:20, 17 December 2012 (UTC)


 * "hippo", lit. "Nile-horse" 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The descendant was set for November 2020. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:55, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * "meerkat", lit. "little stick-tail" 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * "raccoon", lit. "washing-bear" 01:11, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * The analogous was set for November 2020. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:55, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
 * "jerboa", no litteral sense but it's a paronym of cervoise ("beer") and a funny joke is the fact that "gerboise" could have been a portmanteau word of gerber ("puke") + cervoise ("beer") = gerboise (hypothetically : puke of beer), we can found few occurrences of verb gerboiser ("to puke beer") (sometimes use orally). Some jokers already made the link. V!v£ l@ Rosière   /Whisper…/  15:53, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * "goldcrest", etymologically "minuscule king, kinglet", but to a modern speaker "mousy-rabbit" --Tweenk (talk) 07:01, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
 * "polecat", literally "stink(ing) marten". Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:00, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * "bat", literally "bald mouse". ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:18, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Per utramque cavernam 08:28, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note that related was featured in 2018. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:53, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Per utramque cavernam 09:50, 15 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Thadh (talk) 19:16, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Thadh (talk) 00:45, 24 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Per utramque cavernam 16:12, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Per utramque cavernam 11:48, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * "caribou", lit. "snow-shoveller" - -sche (discuss) 23:35, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "bear", lit. "honey-eater" - -sche (discuss) 01:53, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * the Ojibwe word wiisagi-ma'iingan "coyote" literally means "injured wolf", but I don't have any dead-tree references handy to cite it with - -sche (discuss) 02:07, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * "armadillo", lit. "belt-animal" 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * German calls it that, too, and has and  and ... I wonder if one language calqued from the other or if they calqued from a common source. German also has , which sometimes gets laughs due to the polysemy of  and which shouldn't be featured . - -sche (discuss) 20:47, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * "rhino", lit. "nosehorn" 01:25, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
 * An alternative would be . ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:50, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * Or Per utramque cavernam 11:53, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * "magpie", lit. "aah-bird" (from its sound). Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:39, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * "giraffe", lit. "camel-bull-leopard" --Z 12:44, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * "camel-bull-leopard"?! I love it! - -sche (discuss) 21:31, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Haha I recall when I heard it for the first time, when I was in high school I had asked my teacher of Persian literature about a similar, less strange compound, and he told me about the existence of this word, it really looked hilarious to me. We should have a section for especially hilarious words. lol --Z 11:20, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * "penguin", lit. "standing goose". Wyang (talk) 12:18, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * , "panda", lit. "bear cat / cat bear". Wyang (talk) 12:18, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "potato", lit. "bean (grown in) soil". Wyang (talk) 20:47, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "tomato", lit. "Western red persimmon". Wyang (talk) 20:47, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * "turtle, tortoise", literally "stone frog". ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:03, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
 * "giraffe", literally "long-necked deer" my favorite one – Julia ☺ ☆ • formerly Gormflaith • 02:37, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:20, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Vininn126 (talk) 10:45, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Vininn126 (talk) 18:23, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Vininn126 (talk) 20:38, 13 July 2022 (UTC)
 * "Stork wife" Vininn126 (talk) 21:41, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
 * I've put so much work into this entry. Vininn126 (talk) 23:56, 26 August 2022 (UTC)

Creatures from mythology and folklore

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:32, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 18:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:34, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
 * — dragon; unique descendant from Proto-Slavic. Other European languages typically have a word descended from 🇨🇬, including other Slavic languages such as Czech and Russian. Russian, Serbo-Croatian and Slovene also have a descendant of 🇨🇬. --Tweenk (talk) 18:02, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:51, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Words with unusual combinations of sounds
If we can find enough words, there could even be two focus weeks: one for words with unusual consonants (such as the cluster words, and 五), and one for words with unusually long strings of vowels, or unusually many phonemically distinct vowels. (I was going to suggest that CodeCat's nomination of jääaeg would work for that, but I see that despite its spelling it has a fairly tame pronunciation. I'm sure there are more vowel-heavy words out there.) - -sche (discuss) 22:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)


 * — Ungoliant (falai) 22:41, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 18:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 21:23, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
 * Fay Freak (talk) 22:31, 26 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 23:26, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
 * or Another one with consonant clusters, see čtvrtý below.  Care to add citations? --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 05:50, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * 18:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 18:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * (Cantonese) Very unusual... 18:19, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
 * 4 different vowels--Dixtosa (talk) 15:11, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 16:33, 22 July 2017 (UTC)

False friends

 * —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 19:25, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 21:37, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
 * - -sche (discuss) 02:05, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
 * -Воображение (talk) 04:01, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:42, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 22:41, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 15:27, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:40, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 11:46, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 10:53, 3 January 2018 (UTC)


 * Palaestrator verborum (loquier) 10:15, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 14:25, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps this would be better for a false friends week? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:51, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Sure, fine with me. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 13:29, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
 * These are kind of lame false friends. Golem and fosilo are the only ones whose similarity to English words might mislead me into thinking they meant something other than what they do mean. —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 13:24, 8 December 2017 (UTC)


 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 16:18, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:01, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:49, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
 * - means "lively". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:17, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * - -sche (discuss) 03:31, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * - -sche (discuss) 03:26, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * (means "moon" but looks like the widespread Romance word for "water") - -sche (discuss) 03:01, 8 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 01:50, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
 * 14:25, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
 * A proper noun, but I think it is an excellent false friend anyway. Воображение (talk) 17:25, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:39, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 07:47, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:09, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
 * We don't usually feature nonlemma forms, do we? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:46, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * - A very sneaky false friend/cognate because you could conceivably find this on a restaurant menu too. —CodeCat 15:55, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:52, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 18:05, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
 * or — Ungoliant (falai) 13:55, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
 * — means "bread", not "maize", but in poetry can even refer to other grains like rye and wheat. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:45, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
 * (Georgian word for father is "mama") Mihia (talk) 22:13, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 12:36, 29 May 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 11:50, 11 December 2017 (UTC)
 * . Is prick too vulgar to feature? Noun sense #3 is a surprising false friend. — Ungoliant (falai) 20:27, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 21:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:07, 4 July 2018 (UTC)
 * — Julia ☺ ☆ 19:11, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:45, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:34, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  12:12, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:32, 30 August 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  14:12, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Canonicalization (talk) 09:07, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 19:57, 8 April 2022 (UTC)
 * Vininn126 (talk) 12:14, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 14:33, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 14:33, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

False-friend pairs in foreign languages

 * "intellect" and "yeast"; the Italian cite still has to be translated and it looks like it also has other meanings like "standing, calibre". ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  09:01, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
 * “to undress (remove clothes); to dismantle, to take apart”, “to dismantle, to take apart” and  “to understand”
 * “omasum” and  “plant of leaves” Fay Freak (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * and Julia ☺  ☆ 12:12, 12 March 2019 (UTC)


 * - means "to torture, to interrogate by torturing". - means "to ask (a question)". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 08:47, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * - means "salt". - means "milk". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 11:22, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
 * - means "to delay, to procrastinate". - means "to reside, to live". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:21, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * - means "melon". - means "pumpkin". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:20, 15 April 2018 (UTC)
 * - means "arm-chair". - means "chair". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 01:20, 15 April 2018 (UTC)


 * "hug, armful" and "outer part of a pregnant woman's stomach, outer lower part of a stomach" ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:14, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
 * "balloon" and Dungan "airplane", the Chinese pronunciation table states that the Dungan pronunciation is experimental, but the transcription suggests that this is only an orthographic false friend. ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 4 July 2019 (UTC)

Words that look like the names of countries or languages

 * (Not sure how good of an idea this is for a theme, but it occurred to me.) - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I'd say it's as good a theme as any, there have been a few rather specific thematic focus weeks (and two focus months) now. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:02, 8 July 2021 (UTC)


 * - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * china (Italian, Portuguese, Quechua, Spanish are all options) - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * (cite should be easy to add) - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I am not entirely convinced that putting this on the main page, especially if both definitions are shown, would not hit a raw nerve. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  19:55, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
 * ("beautiful") - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * or ("big metal pan") - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * ("silvery") - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * mali (Albanian, Sicilian, Swahili are all options) - -sche (discuss) 20:26, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * see also


 * - -sche (discuss) 20:30, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * or - -sche (discuss) 20:30, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
 * or Max19582 (talk) 17:55, 6 February 2022 (UTC)

False cognates

 * and . Воображение (talk) 14:07, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * and 11:27, 16 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and — Mnemosientje (t · c) 17:44, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * What do you think of, or ? — Ungoliant (falai) 20:50, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * (Soz for slow reply, slipped my mind earlier..) Pretty much boils down to the same thing, doesn't it? I have no strong feelings about those, it's mostly the Hindi word that's interesting to me. — Mnemosientje (t · c) 16:57, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 00:57, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * Can I see the etymology? I cannot believe this is not a borrowing. — Keφr 15:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 20:10, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * We should probably go with instead since I'm pretty sure we don't include reconstructed terms in FWOTD. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 20:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Yeah. It’s more similar too. — Ungoliant (falai) 20:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * The Gothic entry is now created and has a cite and a pronunciation. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:07, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 18:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * and – Gormflaith (talk) – Gormflaith (talk) 14:57, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
 * and Fay Freak (talk) 12:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * and  Assuming the Indo-European connection of the Semitic word is just a dull try of those who know nothing better. Fay Freak (talk) 12:28, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 22:38, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and (or 🇨🇬 if that's allowed) — Julia ☺  ☆ 21:58, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 17:13, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and --Z 12:57, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 20:26, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 20:48, 23 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and, both meaning "tiger". --Per utramque cavernam 11:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
 * and . - The etymology of the 1st part of the word coincides by the sound as well. --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 12:33, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
 * and . Not as strong as the above examples, but one means „word", which the other means „language". Воображение (talk) 20:39, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * and Воображение (talk) 03:16, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 00:57, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 00:57, 1 September 2014 (UTC)
 * and
 * and
 * and
 * and (substitute any Slavic language) — amused me when I learned it. — Keφr 15:43, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
 * , — Ungoliant (falai) 00:18, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * , DTLHS (talk) 23:47, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * ,, and —suzukaze (t・c) 21:40, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
 * and —suzukaze (t・c) 11:37, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
 * (or Thai ตาย, etc.) —suzukaze (t・c) 09:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * and Wyang (talk) 09:06, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * and Wyang (talk) 09:06, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
 * and Wyang (talk) 03:34, 1 July 2017 (UTC)
 * and — Mnemosientje (t · c) 21:20, 12 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and — Mnemosientje (t · c) 17:45, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and, both meaning “you” (singular). [ ˌiˑvã̠n̪ˑ ˈs̪kr̺ud͡ʒʔ ˌn̺ovã̠n̪ˑˈt̪ɔ̟t̪ːo ] (parla con me) 19:00, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 11:31, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
 * , and  — Julia ☺  ☆ 13:00, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
 * , Turkish means "wedge; dagger", Japanese means "sickle" — Julia ☺  ☆ 20:59, 17 September 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 20:41, 1 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and (or another cognate) — Julia ☺  ☆ 20:39, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * (if it's actually from Slavic) and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 19:27, 15 October 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 20:18, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
 * "joint" (not made yet...) and "shoulder" — Julia ☺  ☆ 23:59, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 14:54, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Julia ☺  ☆ 00:03, 26 February 2019 (UTC)
 * “moon”, “echo”. See also Russian  and Ukrainian . --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 02:02, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
 * “(relational) skin; dermal” and “every, each” or  “every, each”, compare Russian
 * “cork” and “rind” Fay Freak (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * “juniper” and “cedar” Fay Freak (talk) 14:27, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
 * and
 * and ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:01, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
 * and פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 12:15, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
 * and Julia ☺  ☆ 16:30, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
 * and Julia ☺  ☆ 14:53, 6 May 2020 (UTC)

Barely attested languages
Languages with only a few attested words. Per common sense, the pronunciation requirement should be waived.


 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * —Mahāgaja · talk 09:51, 11 October 2020 (UTC)

Eponyms

 * --Tweenk (talk) 03:54, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
 * --Tweenk (talk) 23:25, 19 January 2015 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 14:32, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * 17:58, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * — These two have been reported to be the 'only eponymic verbs in standard Finnish'. Tropylium (talk) 20:05, 19 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 02:33, 22 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:12, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
 * (that’s Napoleon’s hat, not Napoleon shat, in case anyone is wondering) — Ungoliant (falai) 18:45, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:17, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  08:36, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
 * Meghmollar2017 (talk) 12:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 19:05, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Meghmollar2017 (talk) 12:11, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Underfell Flowey (talk) 19:05, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

Opposite meanings in different languages
This one is really hard, but the idea is so cool... I doubt we'll ever be able to find five more such sets, though. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * and : You and me, respectively. Воображение (talk) 02:33, 8 December 2013 (UTC)
 * What about a false friend of an English word with a nearly opposite meaning (a "false enemy"?)? means "asleep, dormant". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:00, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and : "air" and "water". 22:17, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * In Indonesian, means "water". - -sche (discuss) 22:22, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and . — Ungoliant (falai) 16:29, 14 February 2015 (UTC)
 * "breakfast" and "supper, evening meal" --Tweenk (talk) 19:53, 8 March 2015 (UTC)
 * “to withstand”, “to stop”. — Ungoliant (falai) 01:27, 13 January 2016 (UTC)
 * and —suzukaze (t・c) 07:24, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
 * and : one means "to get", the other means "to lose". —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * and : one means "lazy", the other means "lively". —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:53, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
 * and : The first means "Spacious", the other means "Messy". Воображение (talk) 14:24, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * and : Actual cognates. The Swedish means "become, turn into" while the Dutch means "stay, remain". A very nasty false friend for speakers of one wanting to learn the other. 17:45, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * and : "Yes" and "no" respectively. 17:50, 30 November 2013 (UTC)
 * and : "Pit" and "Mountain". Воображение (talk) 00:10, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
 * (nǐ) and : „You" and „I". Воображение (talk) 22:21, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Swedish also means "you".  22:45, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
 * and : „You" and „We".Воображение (talk) 04:59, 21 December 2013 (UTC)
 * and : "better" and "worse", respectively. -- Curious (talk) 20:41, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and : "almost" and "barely, scarcely". 22:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and : "anger, rage" and "peace". 22:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and : "mere (no more than?)" and "more". 22:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 18:42, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
 * means "father" and any other IE language where the same phonetic entitymeans "mother".
 * means "mother" and any other IE language where the same phonetic entity means "father".--Dixtosa (talk) 19:20, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Both in Persian: and, their pronunciation are identical in Iranian Persian, though the latter is used in archaic and poeic contexts only. --Z 11:41, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
 * and . — Ungoliant (falai) 17:29, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
 * and — Keφr 13:13, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
 * and --Tweenk (talk) 07:42, 12 January 2015 (UTC)
 * / /  (cake, cookie) and  /  /  /  (poop). — Ungoliant (falai) 22:55, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * "earth" / "moon". The latter doesn't even have an entry yet, but I spotted it in a translation table. —CodeCat 02:09, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
 * and . — Ungoliant (falai) 04:03, 14 February 2016 (UTC)
 * "small" and "big". —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 05:30, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
 * "thing" and "nothing". Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * "air" and "fire". Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 10:25, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
 * (valley) and (hill) — Ungoliant (falai) 11:35, 8 December 2016 (UTC)
 * (crying) and (lol) Wyang (talk) 04:37, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
 * (fire) and any Australian language where it means "water" —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 06:41, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 16:59, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
 * and [ ˌiˑvã̠n̪ˑ ˈs̪kr̺ud͡ʒʔ ˌn̺ovã̠n̪ˑˈt̪ɔ̟t̪ːo ] (parla con me) 18:26, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
 * and [ ˌiˑvã̠n̪ˑ ˈs̪kr̺ud͡ʒʔ ˌn̺ovã̠n̪ˑˈt̪ɔ̟t̪ːo ] (parla con me) 08:54, 30 March 2018 (UTC)
 * and — Ungoliant (falai) 17:01, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
 * and . פֿינצטערניש (talk) 23:06, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
 * and Fay Freak (talk) 19:00, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
 * ("yes") and ("not") Mazab IZW (talk) 17:41, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

Opposite meanings in the same language

 * desert and luxuriant growth —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:12, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
 * Set from January 3 to 9. — Ungoliant (falai) 15:32, 2 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Colloquially, claustrophobia; formally, agoraphobia. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:47, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
 * : Has opposite meanings in two dialects of the same language: "too salty" and "lacking salt". 17:29, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
 * (or ), either “person” or “no one”. [ ˌiˑvã̠n̪ˑ ˈs̪kr̺ud͡ʒʔ ˌn̺ovã̠n̪ˑˈt̪ɔ̟t̪ːo ] (parla con me) 13:40, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Both "loving, amiable" and "rough, combative". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 13:59, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:48, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 02:11, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * and Wyang (talk) 12:02, 9 December 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 00:46, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
 * same as the Portuguese term above - "to lend" and "to borrow". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 22:13, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * i.e.
 * same as the Portuguese and Russian terms above - "to lend" and "to borrow". --Anatoli T. (обсудить/вклад) 23:23, 2 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I suspect we could get a week's worth of terms just from these two meanings alone: has the same range as well. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 17:10, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 13:31, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
 * . — Ungoliant (falai) 17:29, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
 * — Andrew Sheedy (talk) 03:43, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Just like the drag queen slang usage of . —Mahāgaja (formerly Angr) · talk 10:11, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:48, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
 * and [ ˌiˑvã̠n̪ˑ ˈs̪kr̺ud͡ʒʔ ˌn̺ovã̠n̪ˑˈt̪ɔ̟t̪ːo ] (parla con me) 19:46, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Languages of Australia

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)

Languages of Mexico

 * — Ungoliant (Falai) 10:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (Falai) 10:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (Falai) 10:15, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (Falai) 09:49, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Languages of Brazil

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 05:24, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 16:18, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 03:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 18:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)

Onomatopoeia
There are a few angles we can use here. Onomatopoeia with additional interesting metaphorical meanings (eg Latin tinnio - "I jingle", but also "I pay" and "I cry"), onomatopoeia for concepts that do not have equivalents in English (eg Japanese ドキドキ (dokidoki) - "with a racing heart"), and onomatopoeia which are very different to their English equivalents (Russian кря-кря - "quack"). Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 00:45, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * I really like this word, but I have no idea how to cite it because it's so vague. 20:47, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * To tell the truth, as cool as it would be to have a word for the sound of "breathing in deeply outdoors through one's nose" is, I'm a bit skeptical about whether we'll be able to cite this... Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Status as onomatopoeia is controversial, but it's an interesting derivation. Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * It means "oink"! Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Smurrayinchester (talk) 12:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)

The Middle Ages

 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 18:57, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * — Kleio (t · c) 02:31, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:43, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:22, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * --WikiTiki89 19:31, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
 * —Aryamanarora (मुझसे बात करो) 03:48, 23 April 2017 (UTC)

Palindromes
Maybe these should have some minimum word length? aa is a word in 19 languages, and ana in 23. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:57, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
 * List DTLHS (talk) 18:21, 28 May 2016 (UTC)


 * unsure about the inflection, only nom sg is attested, but I'll get to the bottom of it. Probs just an a-stem anyway. — Kleio (t · c) 02:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * DTLHS (talk) 01:48, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , Sokoloff has citations for the first two meanings, but I can't access those texts unfortunately. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 09:31, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Anagrams between different languages
Maybe these should have some minimum word length? A pair like German and Irish  would be pretty boring. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 06:55, 27 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Full list, length >= 8 (excluding some common languages), if you would like to look for more examples. DTLHS (talk) 17:50, 28 May 2016 (UTC)


 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)


 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)


 * and DTLHS (talk) 03:27, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and – both anagrams and synonyms! —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:54, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
 * , an anagram of its English translation —Mahāgaja · talk 17:50, 24 April 2021 (UTC)

Words for water
To recognize World Water Week, how about a week of words for "water" from around the world? For example, 28 August a native North American language, 29 August a native South American language, 30 August a European language, 31 August an African language, 1 September an Asian language, 2 September an Aboriginal Australian language, and 3 September an Oceanic language? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 21:45, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
 * I like the idea! I don't have any specific languages in mind, so feel free to nominate some here or just set them yourself. If I get there and you haven't already done it, I'll just choose some. —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:41, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I'll go through water and see if I can find seven that already meet our requirements. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 12:10, 1 June 2016 (UTC)


 * If only we had a long list of words for water in different languages... --WikiTiki89 14:55, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * If only. There are hardly any at all at water. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 14:57, 1 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I like it. I recommend choosing some entries that have more intricate senses, not just [[water]]. I’ll see if I can find some. — Ungoliant (falai) 21:35, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Here are some possibilities: these all already have either a pronunciation section and at least one reference, or at least two references. To make sourcing easier as well as to keep the list interesting, I'm only listing LDLs. There are so many Malayo-Polynesian languages that I'm treating them separately as their own "continent". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:19, 5 June 2016 (UTC)


 * North America
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron., but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron., but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * South America
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron., but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (was already FWOTD)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * Europe
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * Africa
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron., but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * Asia (non-Malayo-Polynesian)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (could also be for a focus week on unrelated synonyms with similar pronunciation; cf. 🇨🇬)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * Australia/Melanesia (non-Malayo-Polynesian)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.); (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * Malayo-Polynesian languages
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs) (could also be for a focus week on unrelated synonyms with similar pronunciation; cf. 🇨🇬)
 * 🇨🇬 (could also be for a focus week on unrelated synonyms with the same spelling; cf. 🇨🇬)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.); (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * Malayo-Polynesian languages
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs) (could also be for a focus week on unrelated synonyms with similar pronunciation; cf. 🇨🇬)
 * 🇨🇬 (could also be for a focus week on unrelated synonyms with the same spelling; cf. 🇨🇬)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs.)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)
 * 🇨🇬 (no pron. but 2 refs)


 * These are all I have time for now; I'll add more in the days to come. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 18:19, 5 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Any with extra meanings, like Ungoliant suggested? —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:46, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * I haven't been keeping track, but some of them might also mean "river" or "rain", and some might mean specifically "fresh water". —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 11:23, 6 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Would work? It seems it would also be the first word derived from the common Semitic word for "water". Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 08:55, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Yes, but it would need a CFI-compliant quotation since Dutch is a WDL. I wasn't originally thinking of slang words, but I guess there's no reason to exclude them. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 10:25, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Done, feel free to in/exclude it whatever you prefer. I've also split the senses and added Bargoens labels and a slang tag. One of the quotations should give the hint there's a strong link with Amsterdam as well. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 11:24, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * thanks; could you add English translations of the quotes? —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 15:19, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Okay, done. Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:55, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

Food and drink

 * --Lvovmauro (talk) 03:55, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 19:14, 17 July 2016 (UTC)

Dialectal words from unexpected places
Words from dialects that are not usually associated with the language (e.g. Russian Hebrew, United States Portuguese, Texan Silesian).


 * — Ungoliant (falai) 20:20, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:51, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 14:27, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
 * Category:Namibian German has some more examples, and I take it the reference to Texas Silesian is to wiater. - -sche (discuss) 19:22, 18 January 2018 (UTC)


 * - -sche (discuss) 16:21, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
 * —AryamanA (मुझसे बात करें • योगदान) 21:01, 28 November 2017 (UTC)
 * It looks like this one has been recategorised since the nomination. Is this term also used outside North America? ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:48, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
 * I can't say with confidence. —Suzukaze-c◇◇ 07:55, 13 July 2018 (UTC)

For the holidays: Gift-giving
(2016 discussion and featured words removed; remaining can be used again for another occasion?) — Mnemosientje (t · c) 18:00, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
 * — Kleio (t · c) 02:21, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
 * — Kleio (t · c) 18:54, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:00, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * — Ungoliant (falai) 01:32, 13 December 2016 (UTC)

Crime

 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:33, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
 * —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 20:07, 20 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Added a quotation, but the translation has to be checked. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:35, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * פֿינצטערניש (Fintsternish), she/her (talk) 13:14, 22 December 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:15, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Pseudo-anglicisms

 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * , noun sense 2, "hard rock". ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  10:27, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
 * , or  ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:55, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  15:37, 3 February 2018 (UTC)
 * —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 02:27, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
 * —Μετάknowledge discuss/deeds 00:00, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
 * – Jberkel 13:40, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * – Jberkel 13:40, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

Autological terms
Probably best to avoid the trivial ones equivalent to a language's name, "word", "noun" or "polysyllabic" (though a monosyllabic word for "monosyllabic" should be fine). ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)


 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:18, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
 * – Gormflaith (talk) 18:06, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * – Gormflaith (talk) 18:06, 26 April 2018 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:02, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * or ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * or or  or  or  ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  07:30, 26 June 2019 (UTC)

Blends

 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * or ←₰-→  Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  11:52, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:34, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk)  13:46, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
 * – Jberkel 14:36, 3 November 2020 (UTC)