minor verdurian question

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minor verdurian question

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Is it a coincidence that Verdurian :ch ikara, "energy", is pronounced nearly identically to Japanese chikara, "power"? Or is that an instance of covert borrowing from a terrestrial language?
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I don't recall any more, but I probably grabbed it from Japanese.

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