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What is “olive” in your language? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Mine is aceituna but azeitona in the language I’ve been studying :)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

оливка/олива, russian!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Olijf, in Dutch

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Oliven in Norwegian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Olíva

[–] DrBob 15 points 3 days ago

Olive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oliv

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Oliva (Slovak)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Azeitona in Portuguese

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

This is Spanish.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Măslină (romanian)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

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

https://bulktranslator.com/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

橄榄 "gan lan"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

Aceituna en español

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

Olijf (Dutch)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Maslina in Serbian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Olive

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The color or the fruit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fruit

[–] BCsven 3 points 3 days ago

Let's do oranges next

[–] otter 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Zaytoon is also used in urdu and hindi.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

O live you

Mice mice mice elf elf elf

[–] [email protected] -4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Have you tried asking Google Translate?

[–] otter 9 points 2 days ago

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