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211@sopuli.xyz 5 months agoAdd Finnish to the list, “kirpputori” = flea market.
Comment on It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.
211@sopuli.xyz 5 months agoAdd Finnish to the list, “kirpputori” = flea market.
dojan@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Is tori ever used like plaza, like the Swedish word “torg?” The way I read tori in my head makes it sound almost homophonous with torg, hence why I ask.
Paraneoptera@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
A number of Slavic, Baltic, Norse, (and also Finnic languages like Finnish and Estonian) use some form of this word for market. It originated in Proto-slavic and passed through Old Norse into descendant languages.
en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/търгъ#Old_East_Slavic