A-Z of words in any language but English

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12 Dec 2015, 11:56 am

weliweli - terrible - Hawaiian

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12 Dec 2015, 3:56 pm

yrke - profession

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12 Dec 2015, 5:40 pm

笊蕎麦 (zaru soba)

Yummm!

(We also missed 'x': 星 (xīng) = :star: in Mandarin Chinese)

Spiderpig wrote:

Skilpadde also has an obsolete English cognate: shellpad, where pad means 'toad'.

Wow, that's so interesting. Thanks, Spiderpig (wonder how you'd say that in Old English).

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13 Dec 2015, 9:47 am

Heh, we didn’t miss x, I skipped it because the only word I know starting with x is xylofon. I too find it interesting that shellpad has been used. I take it that means that the skil part is meant to be shell, and not scales or shield. Shell toad. I did look shellpad up and it was used for tortoises apparently. Makes me wonder about the origins of the words tortoise and turtle too.

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13 Dec 2015, 10:37 am

baño (Spanish for "bathroom")

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23 Dec 2015, 2:51 pm

Chhatisgarh. (छत्तीसगढ़, thirty six forts)

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23 Dec 2015, 6:19 pm

denne (this)

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27 Dec 2015, 3:31 am

鉛筆削り (empitsu-kezuri)

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27 Dec 2015, 4:05 am

河豚　fugu (blowfish)

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27 Dec 2015, 4:59 am

高兴 gaoxing (happy)

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27 Dec 2015, 6:08 am

ĝangalo

(It means 'jungle', not 'waterfall', but I liked the picture.)

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