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Almost there. They could have used a real polish name like Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz?
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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
Incidentally potato is called that in old dialected Norwegian as well(Archaic as its not really used anymore)
In Dutch also 🙋♀️
Do we get bonus point now? :)
Daggmask in Sweden. Mask for worm, dagg for moisture on the ground