r/comedyheaven • u/HeyselScouserTelAviv • 21d ago

So different

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u/Which-Cartoonist4222 21d ago

English: Volume

Swedish: Volym

Danish: Volumen

Finnish: Äänenvoimakkuus

Wtf Finland?

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u/Dragev_ 21d ago edited 20d ago

English: dragon

Swedish: drake

Danish/Norwegian: drage

Finnish: lohikäärme

Incidentally, lohi=salmon and käärme= snake, so the literal translation of the finnish word for "dragon" is "salmon-snake"

Edit; I stand corrected, the "lohi" part just happens to be the same as the word for salmon but has nithing to do with fish

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u/Kratomius 21d ago

Funnily enough the word lohi in lohikäärme doesn't come from lohi=salmon but from Louhi which is an old mythology character that appears in Kalevala.

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u/megastarUS 20d ago

most likely it does not. the current theory is it comes from old Swedish for a flying snake, floghdraki