I’m doing my Spanish homework and “Salen con” means “leaving with”, which can be used to say someone is dating someone (going out with someone). Since there’s nothing that intones dating within those words, how do English speakers and Spanish speakers use the same terminology when the words are used as a kind of euphemism?
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Languages are related. English is said to have Germanic roots, as our sentence structure and other rules are very German, but about 60% of our word come from Latin and French (and French derrived from Latin, as well as Spanish). So English words, and Spanish words often have the same roots, even if it may not seem obvous)
For example, Salir means ‘to leave’ in Spanish It comes from the Latin word salire, which means ‘to jump. There is also the world ‘Saltus’ which means to leap. If I was to jump out and attack you, we would call that assault. It doesn’t seem related to ‘Salir’, but it is.
The word assault is done by combining the Latin word ‘to’ and ‘leap’. Or Ad+Saltus. Overtime it became the word assault. That is just one example of how Latin and English are related. No language is created in complete isolation. ideas travel, and words travel between languages. Over thousands of years multiple languages can settle on similar ways of expression.
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