What words are synonymous with their reversals in other languages?
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What words are synonymous with their reversals in other languages?
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Dutch: nier (kidney), French: rein Almost: French: etats (plural), English: state (singular)
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Long ago I read in a book that the word "grasshopper" or "locust", in Finnish "sirkka", is the reversal of its Greek synonym "akkris". However, the small English-Greek dictionary that we have at home does not have "akkris" but "akrida". Maybe they meant Ancient Greek. My wife checked her dictionary of Ancient Greek, and yes, she found "akris" (English transcript). The Ancient Greek print could be transcribed with long k to another language to preserve the presumed pronunciation in the other language, as "akkris". -- Pertti Malo <pertti@tmxbris.mhs.oz.au>