Random thought
Sunday, 17 July 2005 17:45![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pneI recently realised that there are a Maltese and a Klingon word which not only look very similar but also mean similar things! Random inter-language coincidences such as this amuse me a lot.
The words are jitlob in Maltese (roughly, "he prays/asks for/begs") and jItlhob in Klingon ("I request/ask/plead").
In pronunciation, they're not that close (roughly, [ˈjɪtlɔp] or "YITT-lopp" in Maltese and [ʤɪˈtɬob] or "djih-TLOBE" in Klingon), but it's still interesting.