"Squirrel"
In Languages Around The Globe
By Molly Kalafut
Why? Because I Can! *Mwahahaha*
Gray squirrels were always my favorite wildlife when growing up. Languages are also an interest of mine, so a number of years ago I started collecting different translations of the word "squirrel". It is interesting to note the similarities between some of the words. For example, Norwegian is "ekorn", Swedish is "ekorre", Dutch is "egern" and French is "ecureuil". Similarly, Latvian is "vevere" and Slovakian is "vevericka".
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Afrikaans eekhoring |
Frisian |
Kimbu |
Meruimenti |
Runyoro |
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Albanian ketör |
Gaelic feòrag |
Kioway cha-hon-de-ton |
Merutig |
Russian byelka |
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Alleghany ah gwing woos |
German eichhörnchen |
Kiseri |
Micmac ahdoo-doo-wech |
Rutooro |
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Anishinaabe agongos |
Greek skeouros σκίουρος ή η γούνα του |
Kiseri.unn |
Mkuu |
Saami oarri |
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Apache na'iltso |
Guarani kuatî |
Kisi |
Mkwaya |
Samialugwe ahawe |
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Arapahoe Ee nah nun nee |
Gusii |
Kivinza |
Mohawk a ro se a |
Sangu |
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Belarus |
Gweno |
Koren taramchwi |
Mongolian |
Serbian |
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Bena |
Gwere |
Kuria_mago |
Mpoto |
Shubi |
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Bengali kAThbiRAl |
Hausa |
Kuria_tari |
Namwanga |
Siha |
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Bulgarian katerica |
Hebrew senaye |
Kwere |
Nata |
Siha.unn |
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Caddo she' wah |
Hehe |
Lambya |
Ndamba |
Sioux/ Dacotah nay-he-no-we-nab |
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Cayuga jo nis kro |
Hindi gilahri |
Langi |
Ndengeleko |
Slovakian |
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Cebuano |
Hungarian mókus |
Latvian vevere |
Ngindo |
Spanish ardilla |
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Cheroke sa-lo-li |
Ikizu |
Lema.unn |
Ngoni |
Suba |
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Chinese songshu |
Ilongo |
Luhyia |
Ngoreme |
Swahili |
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Chinook skudzo |
Indonesian bajing; tupai |
Lumasaaba |
Norwegian ekorn |
Swahili kuchipika |
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Cushna tchum bo |
Irish iora rua/glas |
Lusoga |
Nyaturuwil |
Swedish ekorre |
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Czech èokoláda |
IsiZulu intshindane |
Mabia |
Nyiha |
Tarahumara chi-mu-ri |
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Dawida |
Italian scoiattolo |
Machame |
Nyiramba |
Thai |
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Delaware honneek |
Japanese risu 栗鼠 りす |
Machame.unn |
Ojibwe adjidamoy |
Tibetan |
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Doe |
Jita |
Makonde |
Onandaga Tsh uk a ta kee |
Turkish |
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Dutch egern |
Kahe.unn |
Malay |
Oneida tsh uk we loh |
Wanda |
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Embu |
Kamba_kitu |
Malila |
Pogoro |
Welsh gwiwer |
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English squirrel |
Kamba_mach |
Mambwe |
Polish wiewiorka |
Xhosa nomatse |
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Esperanto sciuro |
Kami |
Manda |
Portugese esquilo |
Yao |
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Estonian orav |
Keni.unn |
Manx Gaelic roddan biljagh |
Potawotomi cItmowuk |
Yiddish |
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Farsi |
Kerebe |
Maori ki~rera |
Quechua huayushi |
Zaramo |
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Finnish orava |
Kibosho.unn |
Matengo |
Romanian |
Zigua |
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Fipa |
Kikuyu |
Mbunga |
Rukiga |
Zulu |
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French ecureuil |
Kilegi |
Meru |
Runyambo |
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Language Translation Resources
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~radev/dictionary/get.cgi - 2365 common words and expressions in six languages - Bulgarian, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, and Italian
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/CBOLD/jgmakedb.cgi?handlequery=TLS.TXT - 32 bantu languages
http://www.foreignword.com/ - Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Belarusan, Bulgarian, Catalan, Cebuano, Chinese, Chinese (pinyin), Chinese (yale), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, French, Frisian, German, German (austr.), Greek, Greek (ancient), Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilongo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Maori, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Rotuman, Russian, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Vietnamese, Yiddish