Interesting Words (moved from Games)

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grammaticissima

  • Aedilis

Location:
Belgium
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You've got it in English as well (to haha). I guess I find it more striking in Arabic, kind of, because that sort of thing is just commonplace in English (in English, you can make a verb out of pretty much anything).
 

kizolk

Civis Illustris

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Bourgogne, France
But Arabic does have some nice onomatopoeic verbs. The first one I came across (and I've mentioned it elsewhere) was وسوس, waswasa, "to whisper". It's something the Devil likes to do.
Makes me think of Japanese 噂 uwasa "rumor, gossip", although it doesn't appear to be onomatopoeic (even though Japanese has a LOT of lexicalized onomatopoeias, very commonly turned into verbs).
 

kizolk

Civis Illustris

  • Civis Illustris

Location:
Bourgogne, France
"Nougat" comes from Occitan pan nogat, likely from Latin panis nocatus: nut bread. It makes a lot of sense and I wish it had dawned on me however belatedly.
 
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