The word for 'cheese' in some languages. Some languages have a more nuanced vocabulary - soft cheeses or things like cottage cheese may have a different word.
One of several cases where Finnic loaned a Germanic word a long time ago and preserves a "fossilized" form, preserving the initial j.
Scandinavian 'ost' is related to English 'juice'. Slavic 'syr' etc. is related to English 'sour'.

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@celrydoor maybe it refers to chon languages

Happy Friday to everyone!
Most languages named #friday after the #roman goddess Venus or the #norse goddess Frigg. Other languages just call it the fifth day or #portugese "sixth day". In #arabic is the "day of gathering" but for in Icelandic is the "day of fasting".

What about other languages?

http://mapologies.com/time

#mapologies #time #day #etymology #map #friday #freitag #viernes #mapologic #week #map #etymology #vendredi #divendres #vineri #cuma #patek #piatek #pentek #fredag #pjatnica

"To kill two birds with one stone" in other languages might not to be about birds. Or about killing at all! Tell us the #translation in your language Source: https://mapologies.com/two-birds-one-stone/… #mapologies #map #idioms #languages #expression #languagecomparison

The languages that have been heard in #Eurovision #updated
More maps here: https://mapologies.com/EUROPES/

#mapologies #map #Eurovision2023 #languages #song #national #Diversity

The #WHO announced that it is ending the #emergency of #COVID19.
Find more about the name coronavirus here and why covid is related to #Coronation

www.mapologies.com/coronavirus/

#coronavirus #COVID19 #CovidIsntOver #Covid_19 #COVID19Pandemic #Crown #Coronation2023

@HouseOfSchnuck yes. According to Wikipedia. And this might have been taken from an earlier Latin expression "graecum est, non potest legi"

Γρεεκ το με ??? This seems "Greek to me" but it is not! Did you know that this #expression in other languages might refer to a different #language than #Greek?

Check our blog:
https://mapologies.com/greek-to-me/

#mapologies #culture #translation #sterotype #comparedlanguages #Greek #Spanish #chinese #Arabic #idiom #expression #language

The word for "we" in some languages. (Being Norwegian, I am giving more details of Norwegian dialects than of other languages' dialects.) Now let's see if I can explain this in a way that won't make linguists chew their arms off...:

Pronouns are very basic elements of language, and are very often irregular. Now, in terms of meaning, English "we" and "us" are really the same word - only different grammatical forms... 1/*

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On the 27th of #April was King’s Day (#Koningsdag) in the #Netherlands. Although it is also known as #Holland, it is not official. Nevertheless "Holland" is the only name used in some languages. Check it!

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Armadillos are a group of mammals in the order Cingulata. What are they called in different languages?

http://mapologies.com/animals

#map #mapologies #armadillo #tatu #armour #armed #animal #etymology #animal #mamal #spanish #languages #languagecomparison

I'm not trying to draw clear geographic boundaries between languages here - I don't know enough.
I'm sure there are words in the Africa map that have different colours, but are actually related - there's very little etymology online.
My main sources are Wiktionary, Google Translate and Webonary.

Part 1 of the elephant trilogy is here:
https://masto.ai/@oysteib/110187489443053615

We've just updated the map of #Europe's alliances

http://mapologies.com/europes

#Finland #finlandnato #euro #eu #schengen #nato #suomi #croatia #eurozone #efta #uk #mapologies

Today is April 22nd, the day if the #Earth (not earth) and the day we are back from holidays

https://mapologies.com/planets

#mapologies #EarthDay #EarthDay2023 #etymology #languages #planet #compared #linguistics

@nellie_m thanks. We will do

3000 people are following us in twitter. Thank you also to the new followers in mastodon :)
http://mapologies.com/counting

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What if... #Spain train system was drawn like a #metro transit map?

https://mapologies.com/metro-spain/

#mapologies #map #lines #españa #train #transitmap #undergound #subway #network #station #imaginarymap #mapa #metromap #subwaymap #transit #imaginary #spanishmap

The words for sidewalk in #spanish

www.mapologies.com/el-atlas

#acera #banqueta #mapologies #anden #vereda

Happy Easter!

http://mapologies.com/celebrate

#pascua #easter #ostern #wielkanoc #celebration #mapologies #map #etymology #hebrew

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. The UN says the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the world's most translated document. Here is the word used for "free" in these translations.
Sadly, many languages of Russia are lacking - they're sorely needed.
The Germanic word, e.g. "fri", is found in the name of the Old Norse goddess Frigg as well as the Indian name Priya. Also in English "friend" and Russian "priyatel".
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