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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

"azeitona" in Portuguese

"azeite" is olive oil

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Măslină in Romanian.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Olivka (oleevka) Russian.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

oliivi (Finnish)

[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Olive. English. Glad I could help! 😁

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Oliven, Norwegian. For some reason it's an uncountable noun.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

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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Except our 'e' isn't silent but pronounced as the 'a' in 'air' and the 'o' sound like the one in 'or'.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Alyvuogė, which I can translate into oil berry.

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That’s an Arabic loan word if I’ve ever seen one

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Yep. Spanish has a number of Arabic loan words, given Spain was conquered by the moors for a bit.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

In french argot, people still say zitoune (zitun), I believe they got it from the algerians. Otherwise it's just "olive"

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Olive in french. Boring word I guess.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Depends on the meaning (🍑👈)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Sure depends on the meaning ! (🍫)

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

Olive ! 👍

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

Bonus points: what’s olive oil in your language?

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I think I just summoned something

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, the language is old (grammatically closest to PIE) so it isn't easily understandable for non-speakers.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

And Olijfje for Popeye's girlfriend..

And Olijfgroen for the colour.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

橄榄(gǎn lǎn)

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

Wiktionary's page for 'olive' has translations of a number of meanings into many, many languages.

Link: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/olive#Translations

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

ôliu in vietnamese

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Oliva is the fruit, olivová is the colour.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

But we rarely use the latter, much like with amber.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oliv in Swedish.

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

The tree is Olivo, the fruit is Aceituna.

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

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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[-] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Azeitona in portuguese, so yes, it probably came from arabic.

The tree is called oliveira, and the oil is called azeite.

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

Olive and ελιά

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