What is “olive” in your language?
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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.
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Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
Alyvuogių aliejus.
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Aceituna en español
That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
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Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.
This is for the purpose of being able to eat as many olives as you like and it cannot be counted.
How many olives did you eat?
Hmm, I ate olive.
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Olivka (oleevka) Russian.
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Măslină in Romanian.
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That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
In french argot, people still say zitoune (zitun), I believe they got it from the algerians. Otherwise it's just "olive"
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Depends on the meaning (
)Sure depends on the meaning ! (
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That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
Yep. Spanish has a number of Arabic loan words, given Spain was conquered by the moors for a bit.
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Alyvuogių aliejus.
I think I just summoned something
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I think I just summoned something
Yeah, the language is old (grammatically closest to PIE) so it isn't easily understandable for non-speakers.
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"azeitona" in Portuguese
"azeite" is olive oil
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Oliva in Catalan
