Talk:welcome

Cognates

It’s really striking to see a list of “welcome” in various European languages – the Germanic ones all have some variant of “well + come” and the Romance ones all have some variant of “bien + venu”, which are cognate formations/a calque.

(I mention this because “welcome” is one of those words commonly used in multi-lingual montages, so this sticks out – OTOH, non-European ones seem pretty unrelated; Japanese ようこそ being pretty non-Chinese looking, for instance.)

—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:35, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

A lot of the other languages look like calques, too. For instance, Persian خوش آمدید means “bien venu”; Serbian добродошли means “bienvenus”. —Stephen (Talk) 06:13, 6 November 2010 (UTC)

Other meaning - "no problem", "think nothing of it".

As in, "you are welcome" in response to thanks. No mention of this meaning? I came here looking for a translation of this meaning, and find that it isn't even mentioned. 10:41, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Exclamation mark

I noticed a lot of the translations of welcome have an exclamation mark after them. Should those be removed, since they are in no way part of the translation?

kablaaw

kablaaw may be the equivalent of welcome in Ilocano language --Geographyinitiative (talk) 01:21, 20 March 2020 (UTC)