I like how they manage to shoehorn Old Norde into the map but ignored Russian and Polish.
At least for my eyes, верблюд and wielbłąd seem to have a different origin than the ones depicted.
In Iceland we say both Kameldýr which is similar to the rest of Europe, and Úlfaldi which seems more in line with the Indo-Iranian branch.
Kameldýr
Camel + animal? I wonder, does the element "kamel" resembles any other, non-animal words? (I studied Icelandic a bit as a teen, but it's been a long time since then.)
Not any word I know about. Chameleons are named Kamelljón (Camel + lion) but that's just because it sounds like the English word. As far as I know, "kamel" is just loaned directly from other languages.
Very interesting! I wouldn't mind seeing more maps like this one.
An app that would draw up a similar map for any word you plugged into it would be endlessly fascinating to me.
Fascinating, in prose and as a map.
It seems キャメル (kyameru / camel) is far more common in Japanese then ラクダ (rakuta).
I wonder if the first word was introduced to Japan by the Portuguese?
Isn't it Camel(l)o in Portuguese? Also going by the map above?
Interesting that the majority of European languages seem to get it from the Semitic family, rather than from within their fellow Indo-European language family. Etymonline suggests, and the picture reinforces, that it mostly got there via Greek. So I suspect we have Alexander the Great, or possibly earlier interactions between Greek states and Phoenicians, Hebrews, and Arabs, for that borrowing.
Map is somewhat wrong in the balkans , serbo-croatians uses kamila (as romanians do) much more than deva ( turkic version )
Why do we keep leaving New Zealand off the map?
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So cool
Love this!
I think teve is my favorite. I think we should steal it. On an unrelated note, why is the German the only one capitalized? 👀
german capitalizes all nouns
Really? Interesting, I did not know that!
