Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)
Olive.
I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:
橄榄 “gan lan”
Olive
Măslină (romanian)
Its zeytin in turkish, what language are you studying?
Portuguese :)
(in bill wurtz’s voice)
you’re going to
🇧🇷 BRAZIL 🇧🇷
(I know, dead meme, but still funny)
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
The color or the fruit?
Let’s do oranges next
Fruit
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:
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Marathi is listed as “Jai-fa-la”, which is still somewhat similar to the second type
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someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different
Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.
O live you
Mice mice mice elf elf elf
Oliven in Norwegian
Oliva (Slovak)
オリーブ
Oliven
Oliv
оливка/олива, russian!
