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In the English language, most of our words to describe intelligence relate to sharpness, at least the ones with a Germanic origin. You can call someone sharp or acute, which is self explanatory. You can describe someone as smart, which refers to a sharp, biting pain. You can describe someone as clever, which is cognate with "cleave", etc.

Is this the case in any other unrelated languages?

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Holy snca

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Holy seca

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selfish bump

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Informative snca

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In my language smart just means smart

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ig in czech "tupy" means dull but also dumb

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>>2946201
obsessed website can't handle funny czech letters

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btw medshit words in the English language are pseudo intellectual reddit buzzwords

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This is also in dutch and frisian

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>>2945981 (OP)
In the Semitic languages as well, at least Arabic and AFAIK Middle Aramaic.

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>>2945981 (OP)
swords are so cool they've infected our language

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Norwegian has this

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>>2946201
Oh yeah I forgot to mention the inverse

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OMGSISA

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