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How funny, in Italian we kind of have the reverse! We say "andare a zonzo" which mean "wandering without a clear direction", and "zonzo" is onomatopoeia for the sound of a flying insect.

> BTW I always found it suspicious that "moth" is so similar to "motyl" yet it's apparently unrelated.

By the way, the phenomenon is called "false cognates": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognate




I can picture that, ever noticed how flies have this weird random-walk zigzagging flying pattern?




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