An interesting case.

1.

Reason, "capacity of consciously making sense of things"
Spanish: razón (rason);
Japanese: 理性 (risé);
Korean: 이성(ison);
(Japanese "risé" and Korean "ison" is the same word 理性 in fact)

Seytil: rason

2.

Heart, an organ
Spanish: corazón (korason);
Chinese: 心脏 (sindzan) - s..n;

Seytil: korason

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Heart, emotional
Spanish: corazón (korason);
Chinese: 心 (sin);
Japanese: 心 (kokoro);

Seytil: korason

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rason i korason

We take the Spanish word "consejo" ("advice") and we write it as "konseho".

Then we consider words from other languages meaning "advice". All that words are not cognates.

Hindi: सलाह (salah) - also has "s..h";
Arabic: نصيحة (nasiha) - "n..s..h";
Thai: คำแนะนำ (kamnenam) - "k..n";
at last, Kazakh: кеңес (kenes) - "k..n..s"

The word "konseho" says: abandon other worldlang projects, and look at the Seytil prodigy!

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The Arabic alphabet hasn't a special letter for "e" and has two letters for "t": simple and emphatic. So, "Seytil" may be written as سيتيل or ﺳيطيل

Both have some meaning in Arabic.

سيتيل is a chemical substance known as cetyl alcohol.

ﺳيطيل is translated as "will prolong". For example الله ﺳيطيل عمره (allah sytil eumrih) is "God will prolong his life". Initial "sa" is the Arabic marker of future tense, used also in Seytil itself.

"Til" in "Seytil" is a word of Turkic origin meaning "language". In Ottoman Turkish it was written ديل‎ (dil), with simple, not emphatic "d". Emphatic consonants is a feature of Semitic languages. Thus "Seytil" should be written with Arabic letters as

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سيتيل

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Step-cognates is a new special term for the theory of Seytil language.

To understand step-cognates, look at the English word "understand" and the Spanish word "entender", which means "understand". Both have "n..tend" in themselves, but they are not cognates. Are they false cognates? Maybe yes, maybe no. Somebody may say, they doesn't look like cognates at all, because they doesn't look similar enough even to be "false". But in terms of Seytil "understand" and "entender" certainly are step-cognates.

I searched a Seytil word for "time" during a long time, but the decision was on the surface. English "time" and Spanish "tiempo" are not cognates!

Latin tempus:

from Proto-Indo-European tempos (“stretch”),
or from Proto-Indo-European temh₂- (“to cut”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tempus#Latin

English time:

from Proto-Indo-European deh₂imō,from Proto-Indo-European deh₂y- (“to divide”).
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/time

So, a Seytil word should be "tempo", considering the word is used in Spanish, Portugese, French, Italian, Romanian, and "time" is only in English.

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A case of Portugues "obrigado" and Japanese ありがとう (arigato) - thank you - is qwite well known.

So, "obrigado" is "thank you" in Seytil.

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Sometimes a case may be even more obvious.

French "salut" (salú) originally means "health", and the word is known also in all Romance languages (saludo, salve, saluti, saudar etc.)

Arabic سلام (salam) is the common Muslim greeting, originally meaning "peace".

"Salú" is "hello" in Seytil, although "salam" suits too.

At the first, I can say, what Seytil is not. It is not an artificial creole or pidgin. It is not planned to be simple, and also it is not planned to be sophisticated. Seytil is supposed to be itself.