It's still the weirdest thing to me to find words in East Asian languages that ultimately have Latin roots.
For instance, Korean 빵 ("ppang") is from Japanese パン ("pan"), from Portuguese pão, from Latin panis. All of them mean "bread".
@confusedcharlot @witchfynder_finder (on the other hand, Korea getting their word for "bread" from Japan was absolutely because post-Perry Japan was a colonial power)
@confusedcharlot @witchfynder_finder The oddest thing is that while Portugal was absolutely a colonial state, their relationship with Japan was actually *really respectful*. Before Commodore Perry, the Portuguese and the Dutch were the European powers Japan was willing to trade with, and they treated Japan like an equal trading partner. So Japan's word for bread is from Portuguese because that's who introduced them to it, not because it was forced on them.