My favorite polish word is dżdżownica (earthworm). Pronounced j-j-ov-NEE-tsa.
Oh, and dżdży (it rains), pronounced j-j-ih
And before anyone asks, yes, dżdżownica is called like that because it comes out of the ground when dżdży.
We call them “rainworm” too in German
In Dutch also 🙋♀️
Danish as well
“Meitemark” in Norwegian. Which is a strange word when I considered it, so I looked it up. Meite is the word for fishing with edible/biological bait. So that makes sense.
Meite probably comes from norse “meita” from cut/slice from the meaning to do a stabbing motion.
This makes no sense.
It’s like in French where pretty much everything is a kind of Apple.
So a potato is a “ground apple”
Same in Austria german: Erdapfel
In Dutch also 🙋♀️
Do we get bonus point now? :)
The pronunciation is actually not that bad but the spelling is insanely difficult.
Spelling is actually very regular (way more than English), it’s just slightly unintuitive for non polish speakers
Polish and Czech are basically the Dutch of Eastern European languages.
As my Polish-speaking mom likes to say, “Would you like to buy a vowel?”
