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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
Another of such strange coincidences is "stranger/alien":
jap. gaijidin
Yiddish: goj
Romani: (m) gadjio
Isn't the fact that it's specifically the word for "not one of us" strange? Have a gin-tonic while you think about it...
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I don't want to be a kvetch but the Japanese word for foreigner is gaijin (to rhyme with guy jean) and the Yiddish word for non Jewish male is normally spelt goy in English. So the only letter in common is g. In that case why not argue that the English word guy is another coincidence?