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AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world to South Africa@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Longest place name in South Africa

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Longest place name in South Africa

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AnonomousWolf@lemmy.world to South Africa@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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  • TragicNotCute@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    the name in Afrikaans means “the spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot” (Afrikaans: Twee buffels met een skoot morsdood geskiet fontein).

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

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      Two-buffaloes-with-one-shot-dead-shot-fountain?

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        “Morsdood” means something like “stone-dead” . It’s used for emphasis. “Dood” would be “dead”.

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          And “een” would be translated to “a” I think

          See response

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            In Afrikaans “a” is mostly written as 'n while “one” is written as “een”. Afrikaans comes from Dutch and in Dutch “a” could be both 'n and “een”, while “one” is mostly written as “één” to help with pronunciation. In Afrikaans they dropped the ´.

            https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=af&text=a+boy+and+a+girl.+one+boy+and+one+girl&op=translate

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