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by throwanem 3303 days ago
> Schmetten or Schmand which is a sort of heavy cream.

Is "smetana" a false friend?

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That is disputed. Most scholars say that germanic "schmand" has different roots and is cognate with English "smooth" - some scholars however consider schmand a very old loan word from proto-slavic smetana.