Editing False cognate (section)

=== Between English and other languages ===
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| '''bad''' || Possibly from OE '' [[Bæddel and bædling|bæddel]]'' ("hermaphrodite, effeminate man"){{br}}<< PGmc *''bad-'' ("defile") || Persian '''{{lang|fa|بد}}''', ''bad''{{thin space}}<ref name="Campbell2">[[Lyle Campbell]], Historical Linguistics: An Introduction, 3rd edition, p. 350</ref><ref name="Glossary">{{cite book|first1=Lyle|last1=Campbell|author-link1=Lyle Campbell|first2=Mauricio J.|last2=Mixco|title=A Glossary of Historical Linguistics|year=2007|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|isbn=978-0-7486-2378-5|page=29}}</ref> || Middle Iranian *''vat''{{br}}<< PIE *''wed(h)-''
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| '''better''' || OE ''betera'' || Persian '''{{lang|fa|بهتر}}''', ''behtar'' and Hindustani descendants || به (''beh'', "good") + تر (''-tar'', "-er")
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|'''cinder'''
|OE ''sinder''<br><< PGmc ''*sendra-'' "slag"<br><< PIE ''*sendhro-'' "coagulating fluid"
|French ''cendre'' ("ash")
|Latin ''cinerem''<br><< PIE ''*ken-'' ("to arise, begin")
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|'''day''' || OE ''dæġ'' {{br}}<< PGmc *''dagaz'' {{br}}<< PIE *''dʰeǵʰ-''<ref name="dhegh"/> || Latin '''''dies''''' ("day") and descendants{{thin space}}<ref name="oed2"/><ref name="Glossary"/> ||  [[Proto-Italic]] *''djēm'' {{br}}<< PIE *dyḗws ("heaven"){{thin space}}<ref name="oed2"/><ref name="Glossary"/>
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| '''desert''' || Latin ''dēserō'' ("to abandon") {{br}}<< ultimately PIE *''*seh₁-'' ("to sow") ||  Ancient Egyptian '''''Deshret''''' (refers to the land not flooded by the Nile){{thin space}} || from ''dšr'' (red)
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|'''dog''' || OE ''docga'' or ''dogga'' || [[Mbabaram language|Mbabaram]] '''''[[Mbabaram language#Word for "dog"|dog]]''''' ("dog"){{thin space}}<ref name="Glossary"/> || [[Proto-Pama-Nyungan]] *''gudaga''
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|'''[[emoticon]]'''
|''emotion'' + ''icon''
|Japanese '''''絵文字''''' ([[emoji]]) {{thin space}}<ref name=Taggart-2015>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VPO4CgAAQBAJ|title=New Words for Old: Recycling Our Language for the Modern World|first=Caroline|last=Taggart|date=5 November 2015|publisher=Michael O'Mara Books|via=Google Books|isbn=9781782434733 |quote=''Emoji'' is made up of the Japanese for ''picture'' (e) and ''character'' (''moji'') so its resemblance to ''emotion'' and ''emoticon'' is a particularly happy coincidence.}}</ref>
|''絵 (e)'' ("picture") + ''文字 (moji)'' ("character") <ref name=Taggart-2015 />
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| '''have''' || Middle English ''haven'' << OE ''habban'' (“to have”) << Proto-West Germanic ''*habbjan'' << Proto-Germanic ''*habjaną'' (“to have”), durative of ''*habjaną'' (“to lift, take up”) << PIE ''*kh₂pyéti'' present tense of ''*keh₂p-'' (“to take, seize, catch”).  ||  Corsican '''''avè''''' (“to have”) || Latin ''habēre'', present active infinitive of ''habeō'' << Proto-Italic ''*habēō'' << PIE ''*gʰeh₁bʰ-'' (“to grab”). 
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| '''hollow''' ||  OE ''holh'' {{br}}<< PGmc *''holhwo-'' || [[Lake Miwok language|Lake Miwok]] '''''hóllu'''''{{thin space}}<ref name="Campbell2"/> ||
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| '''much''' || OE ''myċel'' {{br}}<< PGmc *''mikilaz'' {{br}}<< PIE *''meǵa-'' ("big, stout, great") ||  Spanish '''''mucho''''' ("much"){{thin space}}<ref name="Glossary"/> || Latin ''multus''  (many){{br}}<< PIE *''ml̥tos'' ("crumbled")
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| '''[[saint]]''' ||  Latin ''sanctus''{{br}}<< PIE *''seh₂k-'' ("to sanctify") via [[French language|French]] || Sanskrit '''''[[sant (religion)|sant]]''''' and descendants{{thin space}}<ref name="Schomer-1987">{{cite book |last1=Schomer |first1=Karine |last2=McLeod |first2=W. H. |title=The Sants: Studies in a Devotional Tradition of India |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkKhOivXrhgC |year=1987 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |location=Delhi |isbn=978-81-208-0277-3 |oclc=879218858 |page=3 |access-date=7 November 2018 |quote=Thus conceptually as well as etymologically, it differs considerably from the false cognate 'saint' which is often used to translate it. Like 'saint', ''&apos;sant&apos;'' has also taken on the more general ethical meaning of the 'good person' whose life is a spiritual and moral exemplar, and is therefore attached to a wide variety of gurus, 'holy men', and other religious teachers.}}</ref> || ''sat'' ("truth, reality, essence")
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| '''shark''' || Middle English ''shark'' from uncertain origin ||  Chinese '''鲨''' (shā){{thin space}} || Named as its crude skin similar to sand (沙 (shā))
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