Thought of a couple more:
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Finnish kiert- (infinitive kiertää) ”to turn, twist” (transitive), also ”to go around, avoid (something)”
– from the root kier-, < *keer- which shows up in various other terms referring to a circular/curved motion or shape (kieriä ”to roll”, etc.).
English skirt (verb) ”to avoid, evade” (among other meanings)
– from the noun skirt, perhaps via the meaning ”to go around the edge/margin” (in addition to the article of clothing, skirt can also refer to other items that gird/surround something, such as protective skirts around the legs of a table)
skirt is cognate with the noun shirt, the adjective short, etc.
The s- of skirt doesn't count against this resemblance, because the loss of the first consonant in a word-initial CC cluster is extremely regular in Finnic. (Cf. Finnish kaappi ”cupboard, cabinet”, related to Norwegian skap ”cabinet”.)
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Latin pons, ponte- ”bridge” is cognate with various other terms meaning ”way, road” (e.g. Slovene pot “path, journey”).
Welsh hynt ”path, course” closely resembles ponte- (the sound change p > h is somewhat common, and is thought to have occurred in proto-Celtic).
However, hynt (and its Celtic cognates) is instead thought to be cognate with English send, German senden, Old English sīþ "journey", etc. (The *h from earlier *p has mostly or entirely vanished in Welsh, leaving *s- as the main source of h-.)
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3.
This example doesn't involve a semantic match, but I think it's too interesting to leave out:
Lithuanian mėlynas "blue", thought to be from a word meaning "black" or "dark" (cf. Latvian melns "black", Greek mélan- "black", etc.)
Welsh melyn "yellow", thought to be derived from the term for "honey" (cf. Latin mel "honey", etc.)
Though they don't match semantically, these are both terms for a basic color that have been innovated relatively recently (i.e., they don't reflect the ancestral terms for these colors), and despite sounding very alike, they come from different respective sources.
Is it the definite article or the accusative singular mark?
