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by Chirael 1016 days ago
I thought I learned at one point that “kaka” (poop) was one of the earliest proto-Indo-European words [0] and think it is present in many languages but “all” is a pretty high bar.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/8lefir/why_doe...

2 comments

Fun thing I only recently realized, that's what the Gremlins are calling Gizmo in the movies (and just shouting in general in the recent cartoon). Apparently that word is cross-species.
In Norwegian this word is not recognized. Norwegians hear it as «kake» (kAh-keh), cake.