Wendy to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-22 days agoWhat is “olive” in your language?message-square32fedilinkarrow-up131arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up131arrow-down1message-squareWhat is “olive” in your language?Wendy to Asklemmy@lemmy.ml • edit-22 days agomessage-square32fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareOtterlinkfedilinkEnglish2•edit-23 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-squareBlackEcolinkfedilink5•edit-23 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.
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.