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Enkrod@feddit.org 2 days agoEnglish Tortoise.
German Schildkröte, literally “Shield Toad”.
Checks out as moar frog.
Comment on It was one time OK!
Enkrod@feddit.org 2 days agoEnglish Tortoise.
German Schildkröte, literally “Shield Toad”.
Checks out as moar frog.
BlindPenguin@piefed.social 2 days ago
More precisely a Landschildkröte, if it lives on land and a Wasserschildkröte” if it lives in water.
vaionko@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Interestingly Finnish, a language in no way related to German, uses the same kind of words.
Vesikilpikonna for water shield toad, maakilpikonna for land shied toad.