verdura
ES [beɾˈðuɾa] · Spanish for “vegetables”, from verde (“green”) - like Czech zelenina from zelený (“green”), and Finnish vihannes from vihreä (“green”)
Spanish, Czech and Finnish share no word for vegetables between them, yet all three hit on the same idea. Verdura grows out of verde, Spanish for green; zelenina out of zelený, Czech for green; vihannes out of vihreä, Finnish for green. Three unrelated words built to one recipe - the vegetables are the green things on the plate.
This isn't a shared word - it's the same thought had three times over. Spanish verdura comes from verde, green (Latin viridis); Czech zelenina from zelený, green (a Slavic root); Finnish vihannes from vihreä, green (a Finnic root, via vihanta, verdant). None of those three green words is related to the others - three separate families - so each language reached the idea on its own: name the vegetables after their colour. English only half-manages the trick: greens exists, but it means the leafy green ones, never vegetables as a whole. Still, a striking number of tongues agree that veg is, above all, the green stuff.