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sionnach commented on the word ouija word
A word or name that splits apart to yield shorter words that have the same meaning in different languages.
examples: lathe, toad, heel, yet
November 12, 2007
mollusque commented on the word ouija word
Great pattern, sionnach! It's a bit of a stretch, but how about "dogfish", a kind of shark? In Ashkenazic Hebrew "dog" means fish and is pronounced "dawg", but it's usually transliterated "dag". In Sephardic Hebrew it's pronounced "dahg".
November 12, 2007
qroqqa commented on the word ouija word
nomad (Turkish ad "name")
July 11, 2008
wytukaze commented on the word ouija word
I had some time to make up some of these ouija words (ouijaics? ouijonyms?*) earlier:
leo (French le, Galician/Portuguese o)
eris (Danish/Faroese/Icelandic/Norwegian er, Afrikaans/Dutch/English/Frisian is)
eris (German er, Latin is, “he�?)
airer (Scottish Gaelic air, Manx er, “on�?)
manner (German/Faroese/Icelandic/Norwegian/Old English/Old Norse mann, Turkish er)—this one only works in the indefinite accusative.
This is quite a fun distraction; thanks, sionnach.
*Or maybe nomonyms or namonyms to fill the self-referentiality quota? If we take onym as the second form, we have French nom, and if we take nym, we have Esperanto/Ido nomo, or Old High German namo, all meaning "name".
November 13, 2008
wytukaze commented on the word ouija word
Oh, and another for the road:
Mount Etna, otherwise known as Mount Andand (Latin et, Tok Pisin na)
November 14, 2008