c/asklemmy · by wendyz@lemmy.ml · 1y

What is “olive” in your language?

Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)

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28 Comments

DrBob@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 1y

Olive.

paequ2@lemmy.today · 7 pts · 1y

Aceituna en español

dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y

I thought to myself that this must exist as a service, no? So I found this:

https://bulktranslator.com/

Mothra@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

The tree is Olivo; the olives themselves are Aceitunas, but the oil is Aceite De Oliva.

This is Spanish.

wendyz@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

Yesss!!! My dad would say “oliva” or “aceituna” but my mom, “aceituna”

grranibal@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Azeitona in Portuguese

PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 1y

Olijf (Dutch)

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1y

橄榄 "gan lan"

can@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1y

Olive

AccountMaker@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 1y

Maslina in Serbian

pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y (2 replies)

The color or the fruit?

BCsven@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 1y

Let's do oranges next

wendyz@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 1y

Fruit

KHROMATIKAL@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 1y

Măslină (romanian)

s0larfl4re@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

оливка/олива, russian!

BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 1y

Olíva

Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf · 2 pts · 1y

Olijf, in Dutch

tetris11@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y

O live you

Mice mice mice elf elf elf

otter@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y (2 replies)

https://lexiglobe.com/olive-in-different-languages/

It seems that there are a few common types of sounds

O-live: English, Basque, Dutch, Czech, etc. Potentially even Albanian and Japanese which kept the "Oh-Lee..." Portion
Zay-Toon: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Farsi, the language you are learning

Then some unique ones that still might fit into those bins:

Marathi is listed as "Jai-fa-la", which is still somewhat similar to the second type
someone commented Gan-lan, which seems to be different

BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com · 5 pts · 1y

Zay-toon is also common in languages from the Iberic Peninsula: both Spanish and Portuguese got it (and a few other words) from Arabic.

fckreddit@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 1y

Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.

Bronzie@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 1y

Oliven in Norwegian

streamer272@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Oliva (Slovak)

M137@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y

Oliv

lolcatnip@reddthat.com · -6 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Have you tried asking Google Translate?

otter@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 1y

I don't think they need a specific answer, but rather they want to comment on the different variations

zymagoras777@lemmy.world · -21 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They are attention whoring, nothing better to do.

paequ2@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 1y

LOL.

Person tries to make small talk

zymagoras777: OMG. I'm totally offended. What an attention whore!!1

OK, dude. You know you can just ignore the post, right? Just move along.