| Pages in topic: < [1 2 3] > | Off topic: How do you say "zombie"? Thread poster: Triston Goodwin
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Siru Laine 
Spain
Local time: 13:29
English to Finnish
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| Finnish and Icelandic | Mar 11, 2013 |
Finnish: zombi (or zombie)
Icelandic: uppvakningur, lit. "one who wakes up"
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In Turkish, it is "zombi".
| | | | | In Portuguese | Mar 11, 2013 |
Zombie or morto-vivo
| | | | | In Hungarian | Mar 11, 2013 |
zombi (or élőhalott-living dead)
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| other words that are different in many languages | Mar 11, 2013 |
You may like to try something else as it looks as though it will be difficult to differentiate between the word 'zombie' in the various languages.
What about words like 'shark' (requin, tiburón, haai, shark, etc.) or 'sheep' (mouton, oveja, schaap, sheep etc.), 'mad' (fou, loco, gek, mad etc.)???
| | | | | | Triston Goodwin
United States
Local time: 05:29
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER | I had considered that... | Mar 11, 2013 |
Marie-Helene Dubois wrote:
You may like to try something else as it looks as though it will be difficult to differentiate between the word 'zombie' in the various languages.
What about words like 'shark' (requin, tiburón, haai, shark, etc.) or 'sheep' (mouton, oveja, schaap, sheep etc.), 'mad' (fou, loco, gek, mad etc.)???
This particular aspect isn't meant to be serious. After looking at these posts, which I really appreciate by the way, I was even thinking of putting something like "Zombie" the international word for Monday mornings with a list of the different languages and spellings (the Chinese and Portuguese ones are perfect), or something to that effect.
One other reason that I would prefer to go with "zombie" is because one of the hosts is the local zombie defense group, which is a group of people who practice several different survival techniques so that they could fend off the raging hordes, you know, just in case. I would love to grab their attention, as I want to use them for some long term research projects that I'm working on.
| | | | | this is incredible... | Mar 12, 2013 |
this has to be the most specific type of Zombie of all time, the Wikipedia article even talks about what Jiangshis are supposed to be wearing...
in German, there are also "Lebender Toter" (Living Dead) and "Untoter" (Not-Dead), the latter of which is particularly interesting, because it sums up the whole "not alive but definitely not as dead as you wish it was" - concept in an elegent three syllables.
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| Undead exists in English too | Mar 12, 2013 |
David Friemann, MA wrote:
in German, there are also "Lebender Toter" (Living Dead) and "Untoter" (Not-Dead), the latter of which is particularly interesting, because it sums up the whole "not alive but definitely not as dead as you wish it was" - concept in an elegent three syllables.
[Edited at 2013-03-12 11:56 GMT]
exists in English
Urban Dictionary: Undead = Any deceased creature which has been animated through supernatural means to take on the semblance of life, without truly being alive.
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Marie-Helene Dubois wrote:
David Friemann, MA wrote:
in German, there are also "Lebender Toter" (Living Dead) and "Untoter" (Not-Dead), the latter of which is particularly interesting, because it sums up the whole "not alive but definitely not as dead as you wish it was" - concept in an elegent three syllables.
[Edited at 2013-03-12 11:56 GMT]
exists in English
Urban Dictionary: Undead = Any deceased creature which has been animated through supernatural means to take on the semblance of life, without truly being alive.
and it uses even fewer syllables - you got to love Germanic languages.
| | | | | What I found for Latvian | Mar 12, 2013 |
"Zombijs" apparently. But one dictionary also gave "atdzīvojies mironis" - a revived corpse. I also saw "dzīvais mironis" (living corpse) here and there.
PS Have you thought of doing something with "All your bases are belong to us" or is that too played out?
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| | | | Marina Steinbach
United States
Local time: 07:29
Member (2011)
English to German
| You forgot one ... | Mar 12, 2013 |
David Friemann, MA wrote:
in German, there are also "Lebender Toter" (Living Dead) and "Untoter" (Not-Dead), the latter of which is particularly interesting, because it sums up the whole "not alive but definitely not as dead as you wish it was" - concept in an elegent three syllables.
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... the Wiedergänger!
Further information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedergänger
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Triston Goodwin
United States
Local time: 05:29
Spanish to English
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TOPIC STARTER
Daina Jauntirans wrote:
"Zombijs" apparently. But one dictionary also gave "atdzīvojies mironis" - a revived corpse. I also saw "dzīvais mironis" (living corpse) here and there.
PS Have you thought of doing something with "All your bases are belong to us" or is that too played out?
[Edited at 2013-03-12 14:41 GMT]
I had forgotten that one! ^_^
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Marina M. Steinbach wrote:
David Friemann, MA wrote:
in German, there are also "Lebender Toter" (Living Dead) and "Untoter" (Not-Dead), the latter of which is particularly interesting, because it sums up the whole "not alive but definitely not as dead as you wish it was" - concept in an elegent three syllables.
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... the Wiedergänger!
Further information can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiedergänger
and the word is the most gruesome of all, it really brings up images of foggy cemeteries, moans coming from unseen, hungry throats, rotting hands clutching through the soil... I'm sorry, imagination running wild...it seems German lore is quite fascinated by the concept and needs quite a number of words for it...
| | | | Oksana Weiss
Germany
Local time: 13:29
Member (2011)
English to Ukrainian
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| zombie tojours | Mar 12, 2013 |
In Ukrainian - зомбі (zombie)
In Ukrainian youth slang - зомбак (zombie+jerk)
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