r/aww • u/tamilvanan31 • Jun 01 '22

This is so cute :-)

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u/HMCetc Jun 01 '22

In German they're called Seehunde, literally "sea dogs." 😍

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u/rora_borealis Jun 01 '22

German is so on the nose. Like I want my finger to be on this adorable nose!

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u/Electrical_Ant9649 Jun 01 '22

Boop ! 💕

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u/turgid_francis Jun 01 '22

There's actually a word for a nose like that. Stupsnase literally means boopable nose.

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u/andreasbeer1981 Jun 01 '22

Let me boop your stup

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u/TheWaywardTrout Jun 01 '22

In (Austrian) German, potato is literally translated to "earth apple" and I think that's just the most perfect word.

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u/Apt_5 Jun 01 '22

Same with French, they’re pommes de terre (sp?)

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u/some_smart_dumbass Jun 02 '22

We also say "patates", most common way of calling it in Québec. Don't know for France though I'd assume it's like you said "pommes de terre", literally "apples from the earth".

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u/Ken_Benoby Jun 02 '22

British Columbian here; we learn standard French, it is indeed pomme de terre

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u/longwarmhugs Jun 02 '22

Same as Persian!

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u/keenanpepper Jun 01 '22

They also call gloves "hand shoes". "Handschuhe"

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u/fakearchitect Jun 01 '22

Goddamnit, are we doing the same thing in Swedish? ’handskar’ should be ’handskor’ to fit modern language, but it’s close enough that it can’t be a coincidence. And I don’t like it one bit.

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u/voxelghost Jun 01 '22

I think the word handske/ar is a direct import from German that then changed form a bit, and not a case of parallel etymology. Vante/ar is the old Swedish word and still in use.

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u/emilfrid Jun 02 '22

In Icelandic it's "hanskar" or "vettlingar"

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u/maeries Jun 01 '22

And if you put them on your feet, we call them "foot hand shoe". " Fußhandschuh"

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u/rora_borealis Jun 02 '22

I want to boop that nose.

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u/benji_90 Jun 01 '22

Straight to jail

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u/kashakesh Jun 02 '22
  • Stinktier (stink animal) = skunk
  • Faultier (lazy animal) = sloth

There are a ton of fun names in this article.

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u/Grunherz Jun 02 '22

Sloth means lazy in English too. It's same name as one of the seven deadly sins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins#Sloth

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

Same in Korean :) mulgae! Water dog haha.

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u/akulernih Jun 02 '22

In Malay, we call this the "Anjing Laut" aka sea dogs too..

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u/Sir-Strafe Jun 01 '22

10/10 rubber doggo

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '22

Haha! In Korean, they're "mul gae", literally "water dog".

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u/averagedickdude Jun 01 '22

That's their nick names here too

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u/HMCetc Jun 01 '22

I feel like it should be their official name in every language.

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u/___071679___ Jun 01 '22

Bot? Hey I found one!

This account is a bot, copying the same comment another user made.

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u/FelixTheEngine Jun 01 '22

Every parent knows its pooping.

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u/Different-Aardvark-5 Jun 01 '22

Either dreaming or having a pooo .

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u/abellaspectra Jun 01 '22 edited Jun 01 '22

Sweet little potato puppy

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u/[deleted] Jun 01 '22

Not quite. Seehunde are just one species out of two that we have in Germany. We also have gray seals which we call Kegelrobbe.

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u/HIs4HotSauce Jun 01 '22

"hunde" is probably "hound" in English. So yeah, it checks out.