What is “olive” in your language?
What is “olive” in your language?
Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
What is “olive” in your language?
Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
Olijf, in Dutch
Olíva
Oliven in Norwegian
Oliv
Oliva (Slovak)
Măslină (romanian)
Azeitona in Portuguese
The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.
This is Spanish.
Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”
Olive.
オリーブ
Maslina in Serbian
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
橄榄 "gan lan"
Aceituna en español
Olijf (Dutch)
Oliven
Olive
Literal psy-op
Its zeytin in turkish, what language are you studying?
Portuguese :)
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
(in bill wurtz's voice)
you're going to
**🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🇧🇷**
(I know, dead meme, but still funny)
https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/
It seems that there are a few common types of sounds
Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:
Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.
Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
The color or the fruit?
Fruit
Let's do oranges next
O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
Have you tried asking Google Translate?
I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations
They are attention whoring, nothing better to do.
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.