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There must be alot of diffrent people here from many different countries...
So, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, I was wondering what "Raven" is in other languages. I thing Gaelic is "Morn".
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Ko-ishin..in the language of the Nuu-Chah-Nulth Indians of Vancouver Island.
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Korax, in Greek
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Here are some more:
Bulgarian: garvan
Potuguese: corvo
Italian: corvo
French: corneille
Out of the altavista translator:
Japanese: カラス :)
Korean: 까마귀
Traditional Chinese: 乌鸦
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The kanji for the Japanese word is '‰G,' and it's pronounced 'karasu' (ƒJƒ‰ƒX, as Ivayla said). Means crow, too. (From an online dictionary.)The Mandarin I found in another dictionary was the same character as the Japanese, plus another one that I don't have in text form, and is pronounced 'wuya.' Also doubles for 'crow.'
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Hi Lilith!I was looking for some genealogic data 'bout my family name - "Schmidgen" - on the net. And came upon your use of the word as a noun
(meaning "a litte bit", I guess) by chance. You used that word in a message posted December 20, 2001 at 9:14:20 PM
(", my religion after I've had a schmidgen too much caffeine").
Thatt was one of 5 uses on the ENTIRE WEB of my family name as a noun. Seems to be a rather unusual word?If you know anything 'bout the origins of this word - u.s. region, culture, etymology, etc., please tell me.
Has there been some one named Schmidgen who was rather small? Or parts of him?If you know anything about it tell me, please. Would be nice to find out why foreign people constantly abuse one's surname :-)-Schmidgen
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Typo: Potuguese should be Portuguese
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Raven... some more:Hi Master Raven,here are some more:Danish: ravn
Dutch: raaf
Finnish: korppi
German: Rabe
Icelandic: hrafn
Italian: corvo
Norwegian: ravn
Russian: voron
Spanish: cuervo
Swedish: korpWhy do you want to know??Regards, Satu
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In Esperanto, the basic word for a raven or crow-like bird is: "Korvo". More precisely, raven is: "Korako".-- Nanaea
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Bran in welsh and irish, Hramn or hraban in old german, corvus in latin, fiach in irish, hrafn in old norse.
i found these through sifting through this website.
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