Nordic words for "bra" (https://www.youtube.com/shorts/4oU_0TloZqM)
That was funny. Vests are the best you've gotten today.... (quoting the lady in the video)
Funny ! :)
Icelandic - "Brjöstahaldari" - is the closest now active language to Ancient Nordic.
... and noone, except Icelanders, understand them.
And then Finnish - Rintalliivit - which is a language all on its own.
Stemming from the Finnish-Ugrian language branch it is not related to any of the Indo-European languages.
Kyllä varmasti !
- John -
Yes, Finnish is really something :o but I like their numbers, they sound so funny
yksi, kaksi, kolme :))
With the Islandic, in written form, it's not so difficult to understand it, same as Norwegian for me.
Finnish - Norwegian - German
Brjöstahaldari - brystholder - Büstenhalter
... neljä, visi, kuusi, seitsemän, kahdhexan (kasi), ydhexän (ysi), kymmenen (kympi). 4 to 10. :)
And now we are quite a long way from "bra"...
- John -
Just one more: Police
Norway and Denmark = Politi
Sweden = Polis
Finland = Poliisi
Iceland = Lögreglan
So Icelandic is ... yeah ... :)
- John -
Ok, maybe a bit far fetched, but "Lög" could mean law and reglan maybe ruler/controller, so we get a person who's controlling that all goes by law :))
*woah* I just checked for lög and it's really law and regla means rule :o
Oh, I so love to play with words and language.