Vicious Love

I'm no linguist, so I wouldn't know, but stranger things have happened. Apparently "cohen" and "kahuna" share a common root. Hawai'ian kahuna, I mean, not Hebrew "cehuna".

Edit: Ugh. Unable to verify the source on that (thought I had it bookmarked), I'll have to do some Googling. Or get some sleep and hope someone who knows what they're talking about does my work for me.

DamnYankees

This is a fun article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_cognates

Vicious Love

Huh. Well, I guess that saves me the trouble. Could've sworn whatever source I'd bookmarked had citations to reliable primary sources, and everything. I'd planned to eventually going to get around to looking up when and how the two language groups were in any way interrelated. Hence the bookmarking.

epepke

Israel was pretty adamant about people's learning Hebrew. In the kibbutzim, if you don't ask for your food in Hebrew, you don't eat. One reason was that they wanted people to stop speaking Yiddish. That was the only reasonable alternative, but since it's basically Bavarian German with some Hebrew words, it was a bit near the bone at the time.