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Gloves
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Me when languages from different groups have different words for an object
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Handskar, I stand with the Germans on this one
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I know it's not likely, but I REALLY like the idea of "handcar"
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What's so special about it? https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/old-railway-handcar-railroad-mokra-gora-serbia-old-railway-handcar-186122041.jpg
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I didn't realize I've been saying "hand shoes" all my life. Finnish word hanskat obviously comes from Swedish handskar. Maybe I should say käsineet instead so it would have nothing to do with shoes.
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Har undrat vad "skar" betyder i ordet. Hand är ju självklart men inte hittat något om vad skar menar eller brukade mena.
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"av ord motsvarande HAND och SKO"
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If it weren't for all that Latin and French influence, we'd still be calling them handshoes, too.
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Once you can wrap your head around Handshuhe, Fingerhut becomes obvious. "Ah, so this is how this is going to go."
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Following that logic then how about Penis-Regenmantel?
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Japanese: 手袋 = Tebukuro = Hand bag/sack
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mittens should be handbags
handbags should be, uh, just bags?
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Handbags are just bags in Japanese, but a different bag word: 鞄 (kaban)
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Eskularruak.
I prefer to call my gloves handfurs thankyouverymuch
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To handle furries better, smart, I just use work gloves tho.
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I mean, the German has a point
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But why not Handsocken?
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Glove: From Middle English glove, glofe, from Old English glōf, *glōfe, *glōfa, ("glove"; weak forms attested only in plural form glōfan (“gloves”)), from Proto-Germanic *galōfô (“glove”), from Proto-Germanic *ga- (“collective and associative prefix”) + Proto-Germanic *lōfô (“flat of the hand, palm”)
Enjoy your palmsies
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It's almost like they have different root languages
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In Japanese, gloves is "tebukuro", 手袋, where 手 ("te") means hand, and 袋 ("fukuro") means sack.
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4 Germans downvoted with their handtoes
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I also learned today that a German word for accordion is Handharmonika, and I love it so much.
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It seems to be Ziehharmonika, acc to Google Translate.
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I think there are multiple words (like Akkordion), but it may be a brand name?
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Pull harmonica
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Handschuhe literally translates into "hand shoes" so it’s the only one that makes any sense.
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What not being conquered by the Romans does to a language.
Welsh is another good example
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Well, in English, “glove” is made up of two parts: g + love. The G is for your homies, and the love part is holding hands with your homies, and that’s what wearing a glove feels like.
Don’t fact-check me. >.>
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Then a wild перчатки (perchatki) appeared.
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Can appreciate the french mime not speaking it.
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