• Rozaŭtuno@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 months ago

    I’m gonna need some source on the Portuguese origin of ‘ne’, it sounds too much like the misinfo that arigatou comes from obrigado.

    (I’m so funny at linguists parties)

    • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
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      5 months ago

      It’s actually from Korean. The Portuguese arrived at least 700 years after the attestation of Japanese “ne”.