How to say squirrel in 65 languages
Posted mostly for the amusement of you know who you are. My screenreader does weird things with pronounciation marks, but you can find these words with their proper spelling and more at
http://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/french-word-for-squirrel.html
from _The Portable Veblen_ (2016)
Elizabeth Mckenzie
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Her thoughts wandered. "You know, I wonder if the gentlemanly title of squire could be connected to the word squirrel. Way back, of course. Although I've heard it comes from the old Greek skiouros, which means shade ass."
He jauntily lifted his tail and fanned it out over his backside!
"I know the old English was aquerne, like acorn. And the German word for squirrel is Eichhornchen, which means something like oak-kitty. Nothing to do with squires or knights at all. In fact, your name is used derisively a lot of the time. To be squirrelly is to be crazy, nutty, weird. Outside the norm. And to squirrel something away is to be a hoarder, a stasher, a miser, a skinflint.
"Why has your name been so abused?
"It's not fair."
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Appendix C: 65 Ways to Say Squirrel
Ainu--akkamui
Albanian--ketri
Apache--na'iltso'
Arabic--sinjaab
Armenian--skyurr
Azerbaijani--d l
Basque--urtxintxa
Cherokee--sa-lo-li
Chickasaw--funni
Chinese--songshu
Croatian--vjeverica
Czech--veverka
Danish--egern
Dutch--eekhoorn
English--squirrel
Estonian--orav
Filipino--ardilya
Finnish--orava
French--écureuil
German--Eichhornchen
Greek--skiouros
Haitian--ekirèy
Hausa--beram-bisa
Hebrew--snaiy
Hindi--gilahari
Hopi--sakuna
Hungarian--mókus
Icelandic--Ãkorna
Igbo--osa
Indonesian--tupai
Irish--iora
Italian--scoiattolo
Japanese--risu
Korean--dalamjwi
Lakota--tasnaheca
Lao--ka hork
Mandinka--kerengo
Maori--ke-rera
Mbunga--nganu
Miwok--mewe
Navajo--hazèìtsoh
Norwegian--ekorn
Papago--chehkul
Persian/Farsi--sanjaab
Romanian--veverita
Romany--viaveritsa
Russian--belka
Sami--oarri
Sanskrit--kalandaka
Seminole--wiyo
Sioux--nayhenowenab
Swahili--kidiri
Swedish--ekorre
Tamil--anil
Thai--krarxk
Tibetan--say mong
Tlingit--dasq
Turkish--sincap
Uigar--tiyin
Vietnamese--con sóc
Welsh--wiwer
Yiddish--Ww'ww'rq
Yucatec--ku-uk
Zapotec--bi'achez
Zulu--ingwejeje
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http://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the/french-word-for-squirrel.html
from _The Portable Veblen_ (2016)
Elizabeth Mckenzie
block quote start
Her thoughts wandered. "You know, I wonder if the gentlemanly title of squire could be connected to the word squirrel. Way back, of course. Although I've heard it comes from the old Greek skiouros, which means shade ass."
He jauntily lifted his tail and fanned it out over his backside!
"I know the old English was aquerne, like acorn. And the German word for squirrel is Eichhornchen, which means something like oak-kitty. Nothing to do with squires or knights at all. In fact, your name is used derisively a lot of the time. To be squirrelly is to be crazy, nutty, weird. Outside the norm. And to squirrel something away is to be a hoarder, a stasher, a miser, a skinflint.
"Why has your name been so abused?
"It's not fair."
block quote end
Appendix C: 65 Ways to Say Squirrel
Ainu--akkamui
Albanian--ketri
Apache--na'iltso'
Arabic--sinjaab
Armenian--skyurr
Azerbaijani--d l
Basque--urtxintxa
Cherokee--sa-lo-li
Chickasaw--funni
Chinese--songshu
Croatian--vjeverica
Czech--veverka
Danish--egern
Dutch--eekhoorn
English--squirrel
Estonian--orav
Filipino--ardilya
Finnish--orava
French--écureuil
German--Eichhornchen
Greek--skiouros
Haitian--ekirèy
Hausa--beram-bisa
Hebrew--snaiy
Hindi--gilahari
Hopi--sakuna
Hungarian--mókus
Icelandic--Ãkorna
Igbo--osa
Indonesian--tupai
Irish--iora
Italian--scoiattolo
Japanese--risu
Korean--dalamjwi
Lakota--tasnaheca
Lao--ka hork
Mandinka--kerengo
Maori--ke-rera
Mbunga--nganu
Miwok--mewe
Navajo--hazèìtsoh
Norwegian--ekorn
Papago--chehkul
Persian/Farsi--sanjaab
Romanian--veverita
Romany--viaveritsa
Russian--belka
Sami--oarri
Sanskrit--kalandaka
Seminole--wiyo
Sioux--nayhenowenab
Swahili--kidiri
Swedish--ekorre
Tamil--anil
Thai--krarxk
Tibetan--say mong
Tlingit--dasq
Turkish--sincap
Uigar--tiyin
Vietnamese--con sóc
Welsh--wiwer
Yiddish--Ww'ww'rq
Yucatec--ku-uk
Zapotec--bi'achez
Zulu--ingwejeje
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