(GOAL): One Language ~ One Word

[Phinnaeus Gage]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/guide/languages.shtml

It’s estimated that up to 7,000 different languages are spoken around the world. 90% of these languages are used by less than 100,000 people. Over a million people converse in 150-200 languages and 46 languages have just a single speaker!

With this thread, I'll attempt, with your help, to correspond one word to each language known to man, including extinct ones, presenting them in Latin/Roman script (providing the original script whenever possible).

With the exception of Portuguese (reserved for that prick psy), each submission will be added to the list as a first-come-first-included manner. For instance, the first person who offers up a Chinese word will have their chosen word added to the list, whereas the second person who does such will not be included.

I will not add any foul language words to the list for posterity purposes, but you're more than welcome to post them in this thread. I may opt to exclude other words for whatever reason, but will allow the first submitter of the yet-to-be-added language another chance to resubmit a new word. I doubt that I'll have to invoke this rule, but I wanted to include it nonetheless.

It would help if you link the source of your submission, but rumor has it that Google and I are as one.

Only one word per post, please, but if you're compelled to include more than one, only the first language/word offered up will be considered, if it hasn't yet been included on the list.

The list will be alphabetized according to the language submitted, not the word.

The duplication of words will not be allowed.

Being a card-carrying member of Team Lugan, I'll start with the obvious language choice: Lithuanian: grandinė: chain

The List:

Asturian: Suañu: Dream
Brazilian Portuguese: Maracujá: Passionflower (passion fruit)
Chinese (Simplified): 硬币: Yìng bì : Coin
Dutch: Nieuwsgierigheid: Curiosity
Esperanto: Krokodili : (to) Crocodile
French: Liberté: Liberty
German: Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft (follow link for definition)
Guarani: Kuatiañe'ẽ: Book
Japanese: 便所: Benjo: Bathroom
Indonesian: Ketamakan: Greed  
Italian: Argento: Silver
Korean: 관심: Kwanshim: Attention
Latin: Aurum: Gold
Latvian: Tēvzeme: Fatherland (homeland)
Lingala: Mokúwa: Bone
Lithuanian: Grandinė: Chain
Navajo: Gah: Rabbit
Northern Sotho: Pitsi: Zebra
Portuguese: Saudade: Once described as "the love that remains" (worth reading)
Quechuan: Ayahuasca: Vine of the soul (hide from Dank)
Russian: Дopoгoй: Dorogoy: Expensive
Spanish: Anhelo: Yearning
Tajik: Ҳocил: Hosil: Harvest
Ukrainian: Paxyнoк: Rahoonok: Account (financial)
Wigan: Poucy: Bad (interesting read on a message board)
Yoruba: Ewúrẹ́: Goat

English Words Already Used:

Account (financial)
Attention
Bad
Bathroom
Bone
Book
Chain
Coin
(to) Crocodile
Curiosity
Dream
Expensive
Fatherland (homeland)
Goat
Gold
Greed
Harvest
Liberty
Passionflower (passion fruit)
Rabbit
Silver
Yearning
Zebra

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[Phinnaeus Gage]

Reserved

[johnniewalker]

Italian: Argento: Silver
Google Translate

[John (John K.)]

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Also, I want to submit another language and word.

Quechuan: Ayahuasca: Vine of the soul.

[John (John K.)]

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay.  

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

[polrpaul]

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

 

[polrpaul]

Latin: aurum: gold

[Phinnaeus Gage]

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay. 

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

[John (John K.)]

Just go with the 'coins' translation then. 
Also, there's an error in the spelling of Indonesia in OP.


Trivial: 硬 means hard, and 币 means currency. Coins are 'hard currency'. 

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay. 

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Just go with the 'coins' translation then.  
Also, there's an error in the spelling of Indonesia in OP.


Trivial: 硬 means hard, and 币 means currency. Coins are 'hard currency'.  

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay.  

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

Got it! Therefore, I'll do Latin: Gold for polrpaul, and Chinese: Coin for you, eliminating Indonesia.

EDIT: Now, I have three more problems with your submission: Is it simplified or traditional (I believe you meant only simplified)? Coin or coins (I believe it's either, in which case I prefer the singular)? And how do you capitalize yìng bì (I'm guessing only the first letter, but not sure on this whatsoever)?

[John (John K.)]

Just go with the 'coins' translation then.  
Also, there's an error in the spelling of Indonesia in OP.


Trivial: 硬 means hard, and 币 means currency. Coins are 'hard currency'.  

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay.  

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

Got it! Therefore, I'll do Latin: Gold for polrpaul, and Chinese: Coin for you, eliminating Indonesia.

EDIT: Now, I have three more problems with your submission: Is it simplified or traditional (I believe you meant only simplified)? Coin or coins (I believe it's either, in which case I prefer the singular)? And how do you capitalize yìng bì (I'm guessing only the first letter, but not sure on this whatsoever)?

There's no singular or plural in Chinese, so either will do.

硬幣 is traditional Chinese, and 硬币 is simplified Chinese. I'm not too sure about the capitalization, but normally we don't capitalize them at all. I guess capitalizing the first letter will work here.

Do you want another word for Indonesian?

[Phinnaeus Gage]

Just go with the 'coins' translation then.  
Also, there's an error in the spelling of Indonesia in OP.


Trivial: 硬 means hard, and 币 means currency. Coins are 'hard currency'.  

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay.  

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

Got it! Therefore, I'll do Latin: Gold for polrpaul, and Chinese: Coin for you, eliminating Indonesia.

EDIT: Now, I have three more problems with your submission: Is it simplified or traditional (I believe you meant only simplified)? Coin or coins (I believe it's either, in which case I prefer the singular)? And how do you capitalize yìng bì (I'm guessing only the first letter, but not sure on this whatsoever)?

There's no singular or plural in Chinese, so either will do.

硬幣 is traditional Chinese, and 硬币 is simplified Chinese. I'm not too sure about the capitalization, but normally we don't capitalize them at all. I guess capitalizing the first letter will work here.

Do you want another word for Indonesian?

Image where we would be today if China opted to not be such a closed society centuries ago. English, as we know it today, may not have came into existence.

Wow! No plurals. Simplified it is. I'll capitalize the first letter.

Shoot me an Indonasain word.  (and be creative)

And thanks for all your input, to date.

~Bruno K~

[John (John K.)]

Just go with the 'coins' translation then.  
Also, there's an error in the spelling of Indonesia in OP.


Trivial: 硬 means hard, and 币 means currency. Coins are 'hard currency'.  

I'm confused, what's the One Word in common? Or is it any word?

I know you reserved it for psy and that you want 1 per post, but would this be a good example?

Portuguese: prata: silver
Portuguese: ouro: gold
Portuguese: dinheiro: money
Portuguese: moeda: coin

There is no common word. Choice any word you want. I only reserved Portuguese for psy because I like to fuck with him.

Latin: aurum: gold

Gold has already been used, but Latin is reserved for you, polrpaul.

Malay/Indonesian: emas: gold
Chinese Simplified/traditional: 金: gold

I guess I forgot to mention that I'm not repeating words either, so I'll amend the OP.

I'll let you have first shot, John, of submitting another Chinese word, unless you want to keep gold and change the Indonesian word. Also, please provide the Latin/Roman script for your Chinese submission.

Okay.  

Chinese Simplified/traditional:硬币: yìng bì : coins

^If multiple words are not allowed, please amend that to:

Chinese Simplified/traditional: 币: bì : Currency/money

I could live with a two word translation, as long as the word being translated is only one, which coin is.

Got it! Therefore, I'll do Latin: Gold for polrpaul, and Chinese: Coin for you, eliminating Indonesia.

EDIT: Now, I have three more problems with your submission: Is it simplified or traditional (I believe you meant only simplified)? Coin or coins (I believe it's either, in which case I prefer the singular)? And how do you capitalize yìng bì (I'm guessing only the first letter, but not sure on this whatsoever)?

There's no singular or plural in Chinese, so either will do.

硬幣 is traditional Chinese, and 硬币 is simplified Chinese. I'm not too sure about the capitalization, but normally we don't capitalize them at all. I guess capitalizing the first letter will work here.

Do you want another word for Indonesian?

Image where we would be today if China opted to not be such a closed society centuries ago. English, as we know it today, may not have came into existence.

Wow! No plurals. Simplified it is. I'll capitalize the first letter.

Shoot me an Indonasain word.  (and be creative)

And thanks for all your input, to date.

~Bruno K~

Indonesian : ketamakan : Greed 

Hope I was creative enough. 

[Raoul Duke]

Saudade - It has no translation on any other language that I know of. It's a kind of nostalgia, something you feel when you miss someone or something very much.

[Akka]

German: Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft - Donaudampfschiffahrtselektrizitätenhauptbetriebswerkbauunterbeamtengesellschaft

Or has it to be Bitcoin related?

[DarkHyudrA]

Saudade - It has no translation on any other language that I know of. It's a kind of nostalgia, something you feel when you miss someone or something very much.

Dammit, how I never tought of it D:

[Rassah]

Дopoгoй (dorogoy) - Russian, expensive (male form of adjective)

[inge]

Dutch: nieuwsgierigheid (curiosity)

Regards, Inge

[theymos]

French: liberté

Guess what it means.