And following a great national tradition of low proficiency in English, former French president Sarkozy once welcomed Angela Merkel with "sorry for the time".
Exact same word in Romanian, huh
I wonder if the English words tempest and temporal have the same word root. (Edit: Indeed, I see someone posted this exact example in another comment thread.)
same in Hungarian: idő = time, weather.
and in Latin and in many roman languages.