What is “olive” in your language?
What is “olive” in your language?
Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
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оливка/олива, russian!
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Olijf, in Dutch
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Oliven in Norwegian
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Olíva
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Oliv
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Oliva (Slovak)
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Olive.
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Azeitona in Portuguese
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The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.
This is Spanish.
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Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”
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Măslină (romanian)
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I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
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橄榄 "gan lan"
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Aceituna en español
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Olijf (Dutch)
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Maslina in Serbian
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オリーブ
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Olive
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Oliven
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Its zeytin in turkish, what language are you studying?
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Portuguese :)
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oh cool, I thought olive was the latin root, not zeytin, which is arabic afaict.
Actually that makes sense if the arabs imported olive trees to the hispanic peninsula
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(in bill wurtz's voice)
you're going to
**🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🇧🇷**
(I know, dead meme, but still funny)
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Literal psy-op
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The color or the fruit?
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Fruit
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Let's do oranges next
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https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/
It seems that there are a few common types of sounds
- O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
- Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning
Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:
- Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type
- someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different
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Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.
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Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
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O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
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Have you tried asking Google Translate?
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I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations
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They are attention whoring, nothing better to do.
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LOL.
Person tries to make small talk
zymagoras777: OMG. I'm totally offended. What an attention whore!!1
OK, dude. You know you can just ignore the post, right? Just move along.
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