How to say dog in different European languages

Posted by vladgrinch

32 Comments

  1. SovietCh3burashka on

    Just saw Rob Words video on the origin of dog and this map came out.
    Apparently it is unknown origin of the word “DOG”

  2. DVaTheFabulous on

    Do a purple/orange mesh for Ireland rather than this Gaeltacht blob. Irish is spoken by people throughout, madra is said throughout Ireland, not just the west.

  3. Maybe the UK should be green as well as purple: the word “hound” is an alternative to dog, albeit not used as much.

  4. SummerParticular6355 on

    We dont sai Cachorro in portugal thats in brazil or to say hot dog (cachorro-quente) in portugal we say (Cão)

  5. The person who made the map must have been American and assumed that we speak Brazilian in Portugal.

    We say cachorro to a puppy, a dog is cão!

  6. All of this reminded me that google translate has a portuguese and a portuguese (portugal) option…

    This is getting ridiculous, no hate to all my brazilian brothers and sister tho

  7. Sea-Information-8323 on

    Qen is pronounced almost identically to Chien, why is Albania coloured differently?

  8. AnohtosAmerikanos on

    Modern Greek indeed used σκύλος (skylos), but this sent me down a rabbit hole, because the Ancient Greek word is κυων (kyon), which gives rise to words like cynic, and is a cognate with cane in Italian (and, by one generous interpretation, hund in Germanic languages).

  9. Pretty bad map, what’s the criteria for those regions in East and North Ukraine to be striped but not the rest?