fun fact: snorkel is the same word in almost every language

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What are examples of it in languages where it isn't "snorkel"? It'd be interesting to learn why those languages adopted different words.

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French: tuba (for swimming) / schnorchel (for submarines)

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Is it a false cognate to infer that it's called "tuba" because it's a tube?

I think it’s a fair inference — it was occasionally called “tube” as well in the early days, apparently.

My own inference before checking Wikipedia was that it was called “tuba” by analogy with the musical instrument, but I can’t see any reference to that

What’s also interesting is that, even though the French have the word “tuba” for snorkel, they still borrowed “snorkeling” from English for the activity itself, presumably because it’s easier than trying to create a verb (conversion aka zero derivation is prevalent in English but mostly absent in French).