Certain speakers of English don't pronounce 'white' as WITE but as HWITE.
You'll hear this in parts of Ireland, Scotland and the southeastern US.
This pronunciation is a relic of an older stage of English, when it even had HL, HN and HR.
Click my video to hear how these sounds developed:
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Related words don't have to look alike.
Portuguese 'nenhum' and German 'kein' (both meaning "not any; no") have the same origin.
'Nenhum' comes from Latin 'nec ūnus',
'kein' comes from Proto-Germanic *neh ainaz.
These combinations meant "not even one" and had the same Proto-Indo-European origins:
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There are two types of words for 9 in the Germanic languages.
Type 1, g-less: German 'neun', Swedish 'nio'.
Type 2, with g: Dutch 'negen', Frisian 'njoggen'.
'Nine' looks like type 1, but it used to have a g too:
in Old English it was 'nigon'.
So did type 1 lose its g?
No! It never had one:
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'Niece' and 'nephew' aren't the original English words.
They were borrowed from French and supplanted native 'nift' and 'neve', direct cognates of German 'Nichte' and 'Neffe'.
The French words have the same Proto-Indo-European ancestors so they're cognates too, but very distant ones. Here's more:
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