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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Kont in Dutch - English's closest major relative - is very interesting.

Presumably it's cognate with cunt, which reminds me of the different meanings of fanny in UK/US English.

Also Finnish and Estonian both with perse - cool, they're both Uralic so that makes sense. And just below them dirsa seems so similar, despite Latvian being Indo-European. But then along comes their Uralic buddy Hungarian with the utterly dissimilar segglyuk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Would be gat in flemish dutch tbh. Not kont

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Ah, thank you.

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