ceargaest

[tʃæɑ̯rˠɣæːst]

linguist & software engineer in Lenapehoking; jewish ancom trans woman.

since twitter's burning gonna try bringing my posts about language stuff and losing my shit over star wars and such here - hi!


username etymology
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bethposting
@bethposting

Danish: Mary chicken
Dutch: our dear Lord's little creature
Finnish: blood Gretel or blood Bridget
Galician: little Jane, little Molly, king-king, or sun-watcher
German: Mary beetle
Luxembourgish: Heaven's little animal
Polish: God's little cow
Russian: godly little cow
Scottish Gaelic: speckled red beetle
Serbo-Croatian: Mary bug
Spanish: little little Mary little sissy or Catherine
Swedish: key-maiden
Turkish: good luck bug
Ukrainian: sun (affectionate) or God's little cow
Welsh: little red cow


ceargaest
@ceargaest

in Yiddish it's משה רבינוס קיעלע moyshe rabeynus kiele "Moses our teacher's little cow"


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in reply to @bethposting's post:

in reply to @bethposting's post:

in portuguese it's little joana. apparently it's a cognate with galician — i didn't really expect joana and jane to be related (i'd go with joan, as in of arc), but old ass and biblical european names always surprise me that way ^_^