What is “olive” in your language?
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The color or the fruit?
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Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
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Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
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Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
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"Olive" (German).
Except our 'e' isn't silent but pronounced as the 'a' in 'air' and the 'o' sound like the one in 'or'.
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มะกอก (má-gòk)
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มะกอก (má-gòk)
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.
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The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
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Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Olive !
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Olijf (Dutch)
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based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
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ôliu in vietnamese
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Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
Depends on the meaning (
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Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
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Zaytoun in arabic
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Zaytoun in arabic
Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.
The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.
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Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.
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oliivi (Finnish)
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Olijf (Dutch)
And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..
And Olijfgroen for the colour.
