Resemblance is not ancestrySourced
Not region-specific · English meaning
Much and mucho did not come from the same root
English much and Spanish mucho look and mean something similar, but derive from different roots. Such false cognates demonstrate that resemblance need not establish common ancestry. This is distinct from the question of false friends, which concerns misleading similarities in meaning.
The apparent family connection is not the etymology.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05