English-Finnish translations for false friend

• petollinen ystävä
• sekaannussana
  Suomessa ja virossa on paljon sekaannussanoja – noita petollisia ystäviä.
• väärä ystävä

Definition of false friend

• A word in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to a word in another language but in fact has a different meaning

Examples

• A word and its false friend may well be etymologically related: in such cases semantic shifts have made them drift apart

Related words

• false friends
• partial false friend
• total false friend