Foreign Word of the Day

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20 Sep 2015, 9:04 pm

Post a word from any language foreign to you. Include the meaning and the language used.

enluda—means 'in game'—Esperanto

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20 Sep 2015, 10:01 pm

gwyrdd (green, Welsh)

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21 Sep 2015, 4:37 pm

Honu
Hawaiian for green sea turtle

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21 Sep 2015, 8:02 pm

piws (purple, Welsh)

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21 Sep 2015, 11:49 pm

ceannaigh - to buy - Irish

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22 Sep 2015, 7:22 am

meshuggeneh
Yiddish for crazy woman. The male version is meshuggener, while meshugga or meshugge just means crazy (neutral).

I learned meshugge while reading "Alan & Naomi" as a kid, and looked it up later.

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22 Sep 2015, 8:48 am

ríomhaire - Irish for computer

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22 Sep 2015, 10:47 am

melyn (yellow, Welsh)

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23 Sep 2015, 9:06 am

ligna - Esperanto for 'wooden'

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23 Sep 2015, 9:35 am

That's also the plural of Latin lignum ('firewood'), which evolved into the main word with the same meaning in several Romance languages, like Spanish leña, Portuguese lenha, Italian legna and Catalan llenya.

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23 Sep 2015, 12:30 pm

Diolch (thanks, Welsh)

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24 Sep 2015, 6:47 am

birdotimigilo — Esperanto for scarecrow

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24 Sep 2015, 11:55 am

Prynhawn (afternoon, Welsh)