Wendy@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 days agoWhat is “olive” in your language?message-squaremessage-square35fedilinkarrow-up132arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up126arrow-down1message-squareWhat is “olive” in your language?Wendy@lemmy.ml to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · edit-23 days agomessage-square35fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOtter@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-24 days agohttps://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
minus-squareBlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-24 days agoZay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.
minus-squarefckreddit@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 days agoZaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
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:
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
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.