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The word 'lana' (wool) in languages such as Spanish is etymologically related to English 'wool'.
For words to be related, they don't have to look like each other.
Instead, you have to be able to trace them back to the same ancestor through regular sound changes - and that's what linguists managed to do with wool and lana.
The infographic shows the Germanic and Romance family trees of these words.
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