1. Appelsiini -it comes from dutch and it meant originally China-apple, while in England they just called it orange due to its coloration
2. Hauis -this mucle name comes from the name of pike fish, hauki, it is because this fish is strong. Both are Finnish in origin.
3. Boikotti -it comes from the last name of an Englishman, Charles Cunningham Boycott, it become to mean a word for designating a person or company whose goods you will not buy unless he changes his policies
4. Tulppaani -it comes from Turkish word tülbent which means turbane, in Finnish it is a flower
5. Kaveri -this word is known to exist only in Finnish and its origins are obscure and old. AMD company borrowed it some years ago and created a Kaveri codenamed CPUs it means a friend which is more friendly than the Russian loaned word tovaritsh who is more of an acquaintance in Finnish
6. Hiihtää -it means skieing and its origins are not known
7. Lohikäärme -a combination of words salmon(fish) and a snake, but it means the Chinese / Bhutan etc. Asiatic dragon. Apparently the origins come from Swedish ancient word for dragon: floghdraki. However the Finnish version was borned simply from the fact that now it resembles a genuine Finnish word despite being a loan from Swedish.
-peruna was used already in the year 1500 but it meant päärynä -potatoes were brought to Finland from South America as recently as the year 1700, eventually potato became peruna due to the fact of country name Peru -päärynä became to mean strictly pear fruit
9. Kyläluuta -it comes from Swedish loda
10. Luppoaika -it means the time when you dont need to do any work at the moment but arent unemplyed either luppo means lichen grown in some forests
11. Revontulet -the northern lights repo is a fox and tuli is fire so its "fox fire"
12. Rusina -it comes from Swedish russin and in Finnish it means dried grapes
13. Karhunpalvelus -bears service, eventhough bears are significant in Finland this concept comes from a foreign man Jean de la Fontaine
Dylan Jenkins
elfs (not elves)
Brandon Ward
>7. Lohikäärme >-a combination of words salmon(fish) and a snake, but it means the Chinese / Bhutan etc. Asiatic dragon. BULLSHIT. Originally it was "Louhikäärme", a serpent that lives in mountains. Nothing to do with salmon. Over time the letter U just dropped.
Kevin Brooks
You didnt list the most mysterious
Aurinko, the Sun.
Aurinko..where da fuck it comes from?
Jeremiah Powell
i like finland so much bro's, it's unreal same for estonia :DDDD binland :DDDDD also I really like the finnish word for northern light, it's nice mythological origin and seems very comfy
aurum (lätin) means gold, coincidentally the color of the sun
however there is no direct link that actually shows aurinko comes from there but thats just a suggestion
Landon Ortiz
>salmon snake what the fugg : P :P
Josiah Bennett
Aurum-inko doesnt make much of sense desu
Kayden Peterson
Neekeri -Nigger The word was the only word in the Finnish language describing dark skin, and it was used in both neutral and derogatory situations.
According to the modern Finnish etymological dictionary, the Swedish neger is based on the ancient French word Negre, but according to the Svenska Akademiens ordbok, the word is borrowed from modern French and the oldest written use found is from 1756. The French word is based on the Spanish or Portuguese word negro. It is based on the Latin adjective niger
Jeremiah Mitchell
It's odd how you differentiate between "gypsie black" and "african black" too
Levi Cox
yes, gypsy is always mustalainen (the word musta is black) and this cannot be used to describe other dark skinned peoples like an African or those rare South East Asians with dark skin but Chinese face
Easton Richardson
Isn't that the crazy whore that broke my nigga Jonny Depp's heart?
Grayson Sullivan
Oranges are not called that in English because they are orange. The color orange itself is name after the fruit which was called something like 'Naranga".
Since your first claim was wrong, I stopped reading the rest of your post.
Carter King
I didn't study much elvish when I was younger. But from my limited experience with it this sounds very close to what Tolkien was going for lmao
Cameron Taylor
>Charles Cunningham Boycott >the word "boycott" didn't exist before around 1860 you just blew my mind here bro
“Negroes are cheerful and carefree in nature and enjoy a lot of playing and noisy games.
It is characterized by a low desire for work, but great selfishness and unreliability, as well as a sudden onset of cruelty associated with childlike benevolence.
The senses are as sharp as in natural peoples in general, and their mental faculties are not as weak as is often thought."
Joshua Hill
Finnish preserves some cool proto-Germanic words like kunigaz (king/chief/ruler) as kuningas
