From: Lleo on 29 May 2010 14:44 On 29 maio, 12:07, Chagney Hunt <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On May 29, 10:33 am, Lleo <lleo...(a)lycos.com> wrote: > > Coréia do Sul / República da Coréia > > Hà n Quá»c > > Coréia do Norte / República Democrática Popular da Coréia > > Triá»u Tiên Interesting. So there isn't a single word for "Korea"? > > Itália > > à You sure know how to be concise :-) How do you pronounce it? -- Lléo
From: El Kot on 29 May 2010 15:13 Lleo wrote: > On 29 maio, 12:56, El Kot <nono.black.e...(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> In Bulgarian, I'm giving the Cyrillic representation, and then the >> pronunciation. I'm using @ to denote the schwa. Always hard 'g', like in >> "get". >> >> [snip] > > Amazing - no country name ending with -ov or -ev! :-) :) Well - no countries express the fact that they are somebody's. Ivory Coast comes close - "Bryag na slonovata kost". Translated, it is "Coast of the elephant's bone", and "slonov" means elephant's. The appended "ta" is actually the article "the", which is postfixed in BG. Another that comes close is Saudi Arabia - if its name was "Saudi Arab", then it could be rendered as "Saudov Arap". But Arabia being feminine, and for some other reason (which I don't know) it became "Sauditska", even though "Saudova" would have been fine, and is in fact how it is in Russian. -- No, no, you can't e-mail me with the nono.
From: Bruce D. Scott on 29 May 2010 15:44 Chagney Hunt (essetm(a)gmail.com) wrote: : On May 29, 11:13=A0am, jvazq...(a)semavenca.com wrote: : > On 29 mayo, 08:02, anders t <anthu_001(a)no_-_spam_.hotmail.com> wrote: : > : > > Elfenbenskusten : > : > Had to look into the web to work this out. : Elfen is something either relates to Elves or elephant, no? Since I : don't wish to see Orlando Bloom, it must be the latter. Same as in German: Elfenbeinkusten: Elfenbein is Ivory, or literally, elephant's bone. RM I thought France was Franjistan or was that the name used for Christendom in the beginning of the Osman time? -- ciao, Bruce drift wave turbulence: http://www.rzg.mpg.de/~bds/
From: Chagney Hunt on 29 May 2010 16:24 On May 29, 2:44 pm, Lleo <lleo...(a)lycos.com> wrote: > On 29 maio, 12:07, Chagney Hunt <ess...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > On May 29, 10:33 am, Lleo <lleo...(a)lycos.com> wrote: > > > Coréia do Sul / República da Coréia > > > Hà n Quá»c > > > Coréia do Norte / República Democrática Popular da Coréia > > > Triá»u Tiên > > Interesting. So there isn't a single word for "Korea"? That's what they call themselves! :-) Transliteration of Choson (north) and Daehan (South, Dae only means big). Choson -- Joseon -- Zhaoxian -- Triá»u Tiên -- is the last dynasty that ruled Korea Han has older root -- ancient name of the region as called by the locals. The word Korea has older root than Choson, coming from the ancient name of peninsula -- Koryo -- Gaogouli. I suspect that like China and Japan, the western root of that name came from the time of the Mongolian Empire. Japan comes from the Chinese pronunciation of Nippon/Nihon (which is what the Japanese call themselves. Nip/ni = sun, pon/hon = base/root), transliterated into mandarin chinese = Riban, hence Japan. Ironically the name China might not have been picked by the Chinese themselves. It probably came from "Jin", a dynasty established by nomads coming from from Manchuria who conquered and ruled most of northern China for over a century before they themselves got swallowed up by the Mongols. > > > > Itália > > > à > > You sure know how to be concise :-) How do you pronounce it? http://vdict.com/%C3%9D,2,0,0.html
From: ixion martin - GdBx on 29 May 2010 17:18
In French u = german � (including Uruguay) ou = spanish u ay = same sound as "yeah" gn = spanish � e = german e � = spanish e � = more or less the same qu = c i = spanish i ie in the end of the word = i the 's' at the end of the name is not said (except for Hond�rasse :)) g, j = a little bit like the english g Surafrica or Sudafrica = Afrique du Sud M�xico = Mexique Uruguay = Uruguay Francia = France Argentina = Argentine Nigeria = Nig�ria Corea del Sur = Cor�e du Sud Grecia = Gr�ce Inglaterra = Angleterre Estados Unidos de Am�. = U-S-A, Etats-Unis (d'Am�rique) Argelia = Alg�rie Eslovenia = Slov�nie Alemania = Allemagne Australia = Australie Serbia = Serbie Ghana = Ghana Holanda = Pays-Bas (Hollande is a part of it) Dinamarca = Danemark Jap�n = Japon Camer�n = Cameroun Italia = Italie Paraguay = Paraguay Nueva Zelanda = Nouvelle-Z�lande Eslovaquia = Slovaquie Brasil = Br�sil Corea del Norte = Cor�e du Nord Costa de Marfil = C�te d'Ivoire Portugal = Portugal Espa�a = Espagne Suiza = Suisse Honduras = Honduras Chile = Chili -- Ixion Contre une �quipe �trang�re, quand on dit diplomatiquement que l'arbitre n'est pas dans un bon soir, c'est toujours le club fran�ais qui morfle. |