floor 'ground'

[Chris Waigl]

On 26 Sep 2014, at 11:00, W Brewer <brewerwa at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> Languages where Google says _ground_ & _floor_ are the same word:
> German Boden, Mandarin di-4, French le sol, Spanish suelo, Japanese,
> Korean, Portuguese cha~o, (Vietnamese, Thai, I think).
> 
> Different words for  _ground_ & _floor_:
> Other Germanic, Yiddish, Slavic, Baltic, Celtic, Esperanto.

Except that in French you’d likely hear “tomber par terre” for either. Agree for German.

Chris

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