Twisted Tongues

Journal of my adventures in foreign language acquisition. And maybe some entries written in those languages for practice.

Thursday, May 31, 2007

Spanish shirts vs. Arabic shirts

In Spanish -- camisa. In Arabic -- قَميس, pronounced qamees. Coincidence? The reference that I can find is to "chemise" but I'm wondering which is the root and which is the corruption. Anybody know?

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