Appendix:False friends between English and Luxembourgish
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This is an initial list of false cognates and false friends between Luxembourgish and English. They therefore look or sound similar but have different meanings.
| Luxembourgish term | English term
|
| Aangel (“sting”) Aangel (“fishing rod”) |
angel
|
| aarm (“poor”) | arm (unless it is a dialectal adjective, that is related to the noun armth) |
| Aart (“type, sort, kind”) | art
|
| alleg (“all these”) | allege
|
| allowes (“every evening”) | allows (3. pers. sing. of allow)
|
| also (“therefore”) | also |
| apaart (“particularly”) | apart
|
| Ass (“ace”) | ass
|
| baang (“frightened”) | bang
|
| Bad (“bath”) | bad
|
| Bänk (“bench”) | bank
|
| batter (“bitter”) | batter
|
| Boot (“boat”) | boot
|
| Bottel (“hawthorn”) | bottle
|
| Brooch (“fallow”) | brooch
|
| Damp (“steam”) | damp
|
| Deel (“part”) | deal
|
| Dill (“plank, board”) | dill
|
| drop (“after, on top of”) | drop |
| fad (“bland, tasteless”) | fad
|
| Far (“fern”) | far
|
| fir (“for”) | fir |
| Fischi (“scarf”) | fishy ("dubious")
|
| Flipper (“pinball”) | flipper |
| Floss (“river”) Floss (“flipper, fin”) |
floss
|
| fort (“away”) | fort
|
| gaangs (“immediately”) | gangs
|
| Geess (“goat”) | geese
|
| haart (“hard”) | heart |
| Här (“mister”) | hair |
| Heed (“heath, heather”) Heed (“pagan”) |
heed
|
| Heel (“hoe”) | heel
|
| hell (“light, bright”) | hell
|
| Kamell (“sweet, confection”) | camel |
| Kapitel (“chapter”) | capital
|
| kill (“fresh”) | kill
|
| Sënd (“sin”) | send
|
| sinn (“to be”) | sin
|
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