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What words are similar to their antonyms in other langauges?

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What words are similar to their antonyms in other langauges?
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Swedish: tryck (push), Norwegian: trekk (pull)
German: kalte (cold), Italian: caldo (hot)
Spanish: salida (exit from bus), Italian: salita (entrance to bus)


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Portuguese: puxe (pull), English: push (push)    *** the sound is
identical

-- Ze Oliveira <si504340@ci.uminho.pt>

> German: kalte (cold), Italian: caldo (hot)

This is wrong spelled.  cold means in German kalt, the cold means
Kaelte.

-- Christoph Enzinger <leo@cosy.sbg.ac.at>