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dionian
344 days ago
Fun fact, 99% of words ending in -tion are the exact same in French. Every English speaker has a head start of hundreds of word vocabulary in French.
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stragies
344 days ago
Those words also exist in Spanish, there the ending is "cion", and in Portuguese with ending "cão"
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ElevenLathe
344 days ago
And in Polish: -cja. Lots of languages have had a deep relationship with Latin, not just Romance languages.
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