Comment on Are there words in reverse order within alphabet-based languages?

Lehmuusa@nord.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

So, you’re asking whether there are languages that have compound words that are in reversed order in other languages? At least you’ve taken a Chinese compound word as an example.

Yes, they exist.

In German a rhino is “nashorn”, where “nas” means nose and “horn” means horn. Therefore, the literal translation would be nosehorn. And in Finnish a rhino is “sarvikuono”, where “sarvi” means horn and “kuono” means nose. Therefore, the literal translation would be hornnose.

Q.e.d.

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