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"Tea" is ruined by my native language, Polish: herbata. Robot seems to be a good candidate though: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot
"Tea" is ruined by my native language, Polish: herbata. Robot seems to be a good candidate though: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot
"Tea" is ruined by my native language, Polish: herbata. Robot seems to be a good candidate though: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/robot
and apparently Lithuanian borrowed that from Polish: arbata. Quick Google showed, that herbata comes from Latin: herba thea
These seem like very bad candidates. All are loan words, which is interesting, but we could go deeper if we're considering pineapple/ananas and coffee. And let's be real, words like robot and computer are mostly the same in this respect too, especially if we're considering taxi. But what about words that are more "native"? How about "mama" and "papa"? There are variations, but these seem to be pretty small and mostly…
> Chez: mama, tatínek I hate to be "that guy," but I think this is Czech, not "Chez" (which is a French word meaning "at the home of"). Also, if it is Czech, then the word for mother should be properly written máma (with the acute accent).
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> Chez: mama, tatínek I hate to be "that guy," but I think this is Czech, not "Chez" (which is a French word meaning "at the home of"). Also, if it is Czech, then the word for mother should be properly written máma (with the acute accent).
And it's not 'tatínek' (which is the 'soft' variant of the word) but táta...
Sunday Sun Sōlis Hēlíou 日曜日
Monday Moon Lūnae Selḗnēs 月曜日
Tuesday Mars Mārtis Áreōs 火曜日
Wednesday Mercury Mercuriī Hermoû 水曜日
Thursday Jupiter Iovis Diós 木曜日
Friday Venus Veneris Aphrodítēs 金曜日
Saturday Saturn Sāturnī Krónou 土曜日
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In Georgian “mama” means father
Georgians have been gender-unassuming since ancient time
Personally, it just feels like gendered languages just place men and women in different noun classes while non-gendered languages don't. But it feels weird to place the emphasis on the gender when the vast majority of things in the category don't have gender. It's all rather confusing and I'm not a linguist so don't take anything I say with high confidence.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noun_class
[1] https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-french-word-for-vagina-a-ma...
[2] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/gcla-2014-000...
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Another example of this article being confidently wrong about tomato is Czech, where the word used is rajče or rajské jablko, the latter meaning "apple of paradise."
Same in Austrian German (Paradeiser) so perhaps something to do with it the Austro-Hungarian empire.
Edited to add: According to Wikipedia [0], the original Hungarian expression was also "apple of paradise," which then got shortened to just paradiscom. It also points out that the Italian pomodoro is literally "apple of gold." I guess the far-flung origins were thought of as paradisical...
[0] https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradicsom_(n%C3%B6v%C3%A9nyfa...
Another commonality across many languages is naming days of the week after celestial bodies: Sunday Sun Sōlis Hēlíou 日曜日 Monday Moon Lūnae Selḗnēs 月曜日 Tuesday Mars Mārtis Áreōs 火曜日 Wednesday Mercury Mercuriī Hermoû 水曜日 Thursday Jupiter Iovis Diós 木曜日 Friday Venus Veneris Aphrodítēs 金曜日 Saturday Saturn Sāturnī Krónou 土曜日 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_days_of_the_week
I've been on the hunt for the equivalent of "preaching to the choir" which, as far as I can tell, only really exists in English. For non-English speakers it translates to: "Attempting to convince a group of people who are already convinced of something" Anyone have an example in another language?
Portuguese: Pregar ao convertido. English: Preach to the [already] converted. Very equivalent.
This is really not a common expression.