What is “olive” in your language?
What is “olive” in your language?
Original question by @wendyz@lemmy.ml
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"Olive" (German).
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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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Aceituna en español
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That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one
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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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Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.
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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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Olive in french. Boring word I guess.
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Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)
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Sure depends on the meaning ! (🍫)
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Olive ! 👍
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Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.
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橄榄（gǎn lǎn)
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The color or the fruit?
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OP:
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Yes
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Olijf (Dutch)
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And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..
And Olijfgroen for the colour.
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Oliv in Swedish.
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Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.
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But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.
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ôliu in vietnamese
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Olive and ελιά
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มะกอก (má-gòk)
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based on vietnamese thats not olives ; some names in english are june plum or ambarella fruit
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The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.
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oliivi (Finnish)
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Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?
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Alyvuogių aliejus.
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Olivka (oleevka) Russian.
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Zaytoun in arabic
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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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Măslină in Romanian.
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Oliva in Catalan
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Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁