"to change" in seven languages
Meaningto change
Spanish
cambiar
/kamˈbjaɾ/
inherited
French
changer
/ʃɑ̃ʒe/
inherited
Italian
cambiare
/kamˈbjare/
inherited
Portuguese
mudar
/muˈdah/
other source · Latin MŪTĀRE 'to change'
Trocar is 'to exchange'; mudar is to change in itself.
Romanian
schimba
/skimˈba/
inherited
From the prefixed spoken Latin *EXCAMBIĀRE.
Catalan
canviar
/kəmbiˈa/
inherited
English
change
/tʃeɪndʒ/
from Latin/French · Old French changier
English → Italianto changecambiareCognateSame source — inherited, learned or borrowed. You can recognize it.What English and Italian share
The Latin ancestor
CAMBIĀRE‘to exchange (Late Latin, of Gaulish origin)’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
English took the word from French, so it has French ch- where Spanish and Italian keep the Latin c-: cambiar, cambiare, but changer, change.
English relatives: change, exchange
Sound laws at work
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In a sentence
- esHa cambiado de opinión.
- frElle a changé d'avis.
- itHa cambiato idea.
- ptEla mudou de ideia.
- roȘi-a schimbat părerea.
- caHa canviat d'opinió.
- enShe changed her mind.
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