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Suka means the following:





It's also a cuss word, and a grammatical case.

ok, cool is there some sort of 'formula' to how english words are transliterated to croatian?

over decades of mutual isolation, the north and south korean languages have become separate..one of these differences has to do with the way foreign words are borrowed.
for country names, north korean tends to use the name of the country used that country's native language. south korean uses the english word.



yeah i guessed so...i see "-iyyah" endings sometimes, i don't know if they are alternate spellings of "iya" or not, if they do or don't represent the same sounds/morphemes. if they do, it just seems a bit excessive and drawn out to me.

also possibly unrelated, but "mami" in hebrew apparently has nothing to do with mothers at all, unlike so many other languages. it means 'sweetie', or another term of endearment. 'mother' in between is אם, or אמא.

father or dad is 'ab' or 'abba/'ava' in most Semitic languages.

apparently why so many languages have 'mam'-like words for mother is that the bilabial sounds such as [m] and [d], and open vowels like [a] are so easy for infants to pronounce and are thus one of the first parents recognize and distinguish from babbling..associating with themselves. maybe if fathers could breastfeed, they'd be 'mama' too.

georgian has this reversed, though. mother is 'deda' and father is 'mama'. 'papa' is there too, but it means 'grandfather'.

Here's a video highlighting how awkward it would be if Latin Americans read words that were written in a different dialect of Spanish:

"Going Gold, A Localized Journey: Latin America", by Gaijin Goombah

German "Kunde" which means customer and Persian koondeh which means a VERY bad thing (that's a link to urband dictionary with the meaning). They are pronounced EXACTLY the same. EXACTLY. Makes me always laugh when I go shoping and makes me realize that I'm a costumer ("Kunde").

"Deutsch" is German for "German."

And "Duits" is Dutch for "German".
Deutsch/Duits/Dutch/Diets all have the same etymology.

i thought it's root meant 'people'?

lots of names for Germany now!



the PIE root teuta- may also mean people. many cultures refer to themselves as 'the people', like inuit, and the athabascans (also from the far north) tho call themselves dena, or variants of it.

Hence: "Teutonic"

yep! and finnish saksa from the saxon tribe.

Polish "Niemcy" has the root of "niemowa" which means "someone who can't speak".

yep, same in Croatian

nijem - who can't speak

Nijemac - German

This must have DEEP Indo-European roots if the Germanic and Slavic terms are virtually identical.

I think it has got to do with the fact that it seemed to the ancient Slavic tribes that Germans spoke with an unintelligible language. Something similar happened when ancient Greeks called other nations "babaroi" as it to them it appeared they were all saying "barbarbar" - that is something unintelligible.

That makes sense.

And Allemagne from the Alemanni tribe. Makes some sense, as Alemanni lived next to the French, while the Finns would have more contact with the Saxons in the north.

Maybe you misread something (or maybe I did), but Niemcy/Nijemac vs Deutsch don't look very similar to me.