| ▲ | rob74 2 hours ago | |
Wow, that's a really sneaky "false friend" in Italian! Especially since it even has the meaning of "forest-related" in other Latinic languages, e.g. in French route forestière = forest road. | ||
| ▲ | phikappa an hour ago | parent | next [-] | |
I wouldn't call it so much a false friend as forest/foreign (and forfeit and I'm sure a bunch of other words) all coming from the same Latin "foris" root and being semantically related. In Italian, outside is just "fuori". You're a foreigner to what you've forfeited in the forest. | ||
| ▲ | bonzini 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Forest-related is "forestale" in Italian. | ||