Yaghan: Coincidences Do Come True

 The last speaker of Yaghan, the indigenous language of Tierra del Fuego, has sailed (or perhaps canoed) beyond the sunset. In the memorial article for the woman and the language, a curious fact emerges: the word for sun is lamp. To Anglophones or Francophones, this may seem remarkable. And the more romantically inclined may daydream of a latter-day Pythias or Hanno voyaging, leaving this word as an indication of early contact. Unfortunately for such bold thinking, the similarities are often due to mere coincidence. Lamp is merely a word in a recently moribund language, whose living light has been extinguished.

(If you nonetheless want to know more about the language, the Wikipedia article at the time of this writing is a good place to start)