Kairos - Hackdot

Re:Kairos by sm4rk0 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:24AM (#28818231)

It's similar in Serbian (and Croat) - the word for "time", "vreme" also means "weather": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vreme#Serbo-Croatian

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Re:Kairos by sergioisidoro on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:38AM (#28818319)

Same thing for Portuguese "tempo"

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Re:Kairos by dawkins on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:07AM (#28818530)

And Spanish

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Re:Kairos by frabert on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:38AM (#28818769)

Italian too

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Re:Kairos by JMKwins on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:49AM (#28818859)

French

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Re:Kairos by Kankuro on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:23PM (#28820746)

And following a great national tradition of low proficiency in English, former French president Sarkozy once welcomed Angela Merkel with "sorry for the time".

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Re:Kairos by kiliancs on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:23PM (#28819635)

And Catalan.

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Re:Kairos by jgalt212 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:31PM (#28820246)

celebrities are just like us /s

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Re:Kairos by Case81 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @10:51AM (#28818878)

Exact same word in Romanian, huh

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Re:Kairos by rcthompson on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:44PM (#28822658)

I wonder if the English words tempest and temporal have the same word root. (Edit: Indeed, I see someone posted this exact example in another comment thread.)

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Re:Kairos by bandie91 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @06:57PM (#28822723)

same in Hungarian: idő = time, weather. and in Latin and in many roman languages.

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Re:Kairos by nesarkvechnep on Monday October 11, 2021 @03:04AM (#28825598)

Same in Bulgarian.

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