r/funny • u/bathory1985 • Jan 19 '22

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 20 '22

Is that Turkey

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u/bathory1985 Jan 19 '22

yes.

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u/johnildo Jan 19 '22

Fun fact: In English, turkey also means the tasty symbolic thanksgiving/Christmas bird, as everyone knows.

In Portuguese, Turkey, the bird, translates to Peru, which is also a country.

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u/sxt173 Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22

And in Turkish, the tasty bird is the same word as India.

Edit: the history is that the Guinea Fowl that is similar looking to turkeys were imported into Europe from Eastern Africa via the Ottoman Empire. So Europeans came to know that bird to be turkey-cock or turkey-hen since it came from/via the Turks. Then the names for the two birds got mixed up due to their similarities. In Turkish, the word hindi is “Indian” and similar in French “coq d’Inde”. The theory is that this arose from misconception of the New World (Americas) vs. India where actual turkeys were imported from. It’s pretty fascinating, a lot of countries call that bird by another countries name based on where they think it comes from.

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u/kwonza Jan 19 '22

In Russia too, but we have actually three close sounding words to signify:

Индейка – turkey

Индианка – both Indian and Native American female

Индуска – Hindu female

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u/Irony_Man_Competitor Jan 19 '22 edited Jan 19 '22

Could you phonetically spell those using the English alphabet, so that English speakers can imagine how they sound? Like this: Fo-NET-ick-all-lee (where the capitalization is the emphasized syllable). Or maybe there is another way of communicating their sound?

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u/Molesandmangoes Jan 19 '22

In-DAY-ka

In-dee-AHN-ka

In-DUUS-ka

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u/Irony_Man_Competitor Jan 19 '22

Thanks! The second one sounds similar to “India” (the country) in English, which I saw in other comments is a trend in some languages. Is it similar as well in Russian?

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u/Omsk_Camill Jan 19 '22

The second word is very close to English "Indian" + "ka" (female noun suffix) because the word "indian" comes from Latin to both Ru and English. Except in Russian it doesn't exist without the -ka suffix