• turdas@suppo.fiEnglish
    10·
    2 months ago

    I think the Estonian one (“Osta euroopat”) is wrong and translates to “Buy parts of Europe”.

    I’m not fluent (just Finnish) so I don’t know what the actual correct translation would be, though looking into it I believe it might have to be three words rather than two. “Osta Euroopast” might be close but would AFAIK translate to “Buy from Europe” rather than “Buy European”.

    • anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      It translates to “Buy Europe”. You are correct with “Osta Euroopast” but I think “Osta Euroopalist” or “Osta Euroopalikku” might also work.

    • Barley_Man@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Well one of these is Armenian. Armenia is neither in the EU nor in Europe except for the broadest possible, and I would say very dubious, definition of Europe. I feel like including Georgia but especially Armenia is hard to argue except from a cultural perspective where these nations are Christian and therefore sort of belong more in the European christian sphere rather than the west Asian Islamic sphere.

  • ntd_quiet@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    Interesting how many of them start with a <k>, which I’m assuming is a stop, maybe velar? Like, velar stop + mid/low back vowel. I don’t do much etymology or cross-language linguistics, but I’m guessing those are . . . probably Slavic, but I see Dutch there too and maybe Spanish. The ones starting with vowels (aside from French) are I guess from Nordic countries? I think I was expecting (to identify) more romance languages. Neat!