American Was Shocked By European English Word Differences!! (Spain, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Italy) 

Correct Greek 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷: 1)Magic: Μαγεία/Μαγικός (Mageia means the art of magic, magikos means someone who is magical/enchanted). It comes from the ancient Greek word Μάγος (magos) meaning "wise person" 2)Eggplant: Μελιτζάνα (melijana), from Italian Melentzana 3)Handshake: Χειραψία (chirapsia), from ancient Greek χείρ (modern Greek χέρι) meaning hand/arm, and ancient Greek άπτω (apto) meaning to touch. "Hand touch" 4)Bicycle: Ποδήλατο (podilato), from ancient Greek ποῦς (ποδός) , Modern Greek πόδι (podi) meaning foot/leg, and ηλάτης (ilatis) (modern Greek κοπηλάτης) meaning someone how rows. "Foot rowing thing" 5)Earth: Γη (Yi), from ancient Greek Γαῖα (Gaia)/Γῆ (Gē), meaning Earth/land, the ancient Greek goddess Gaia is considered to be one of the first primordial gods, together with Uranus they gave birth to the Titans. Words including Gaia in them are all Greek, such as geometry (γεωμετρία, counting of the Earth), geology (γεωλογία, study/science/logic of the earth), geography (γεωγραφία, writing down of the Earth) and even the name George (Γεώργιος, he who works the land, a farmer) 6)Toothpaste: Οδοντόκρεμα (odondokrema), it comes from ancient Greek οδοῦς (οδόντος) meaning "tooth" (modern Greek δόντι (dondi)) and κρέμα (krema), which means cream, most likely a Western loanword "Tooth cream" 7)Sticker: Αυτοκόλλητο (aftokolito) from anc. Greek αυτός meaning self/the same, and κολλάω meaning to stick/glue. The suffix -το means "that which can be", therefore all together the word means "that which can be stuck/glued on its own".

In Italy we don't study Greek at school, we study ancient Greek and of course it's not a Latin language.

Greek did not derive from latin, they influenced each other, but do not have the same root.

1. When did different Indo-European languages become accents? 2. When did Greek become a Latin language?

Hello from Greece🇬🇷! Well, Greek is definitely not a Latin based language. The language, as we now know it, comes from ancient Greek, which is considerably older than Latin. The Greek girl, translated "Magic" as "Μαγικό", which is used in Greek as an adjective. The word that we use as an substantive is "Μαγεία". Also, by "Χαιρέτισμα" we mean "Greeting". The word which stands for handshake is "Χειραψία" (χειρ=hand, άπτω, αγγίζω=touch). The second compound of the word "bicycle", comes from the Greek word "κύκλος" (also, bicycle=ποδήλατο, is the means of transport controlled by the legs). Except for "οδοντόπαστα"=toothpaste, we also use the word "οδοντόκρεμα". It was a really nice video! Always interesting to compare different languages and their vocabularies! They present differences, but also many similarities, showing the cultural and linguistic contact of the nations! Thank you very much!😊

Thank God for the Italian girl, because the Greek one knew nothing, she even stated that greek derived from latin...

The "Greek" girl is actually from Cyprus you can tell from her accent if you're Cypriot/Greek. The fact that her name is Ellada (Greece, if you translate it directly) even though she's Cypriot may confuse people even more...😅

I love the fact that the Greek girl's name is Ellada, which is the actual name of the country in Greek 🇬🇷💙

The Greek Girl said some words differently than a native speaker would have. I bet she was not raised in Greece.

Greek and Spanish have the same phonology, which means they produce the same sounds that's why people get confused. But when you start writing the similarity disappears.

The Greek girl said "μαγικό" (magiķó) for "magic", but that's the adjective. "Magic" as in the power - which was the intended word - is "μαγεία" (magía).

hmmm what region is the greek girl from? she seems to have an accent in Greek, like, maybe from Cyprus. Also the name "Eλλάδα" is not commonly used in Greece so I was thinking that she was actually raised or born somewhere outside of Greece or out of the mainland. Maybe that's why she made some mistakes with some words like χειραψια or with magic as well, she used the word "μαγικό" which is the word we use when we want to say that something has magic properties and not the actual word for magic which is "μαγεία". Moreover, even though it sounds like it, Greek is not a latin language.

greek is not a latin derived language, latin actually came after the greek language, even tho they are from the indo-european family tree, they are both very different and from totally different branches

Magic ----> Greek word for all eggplant ----> Arabic word for Greeks Italians Spanish Handshake ----> partially Greek word for Italians (stretta/stringere: στραγγός ) Bicycle ----> Greek word (δίκυκλο) for English Spanish Italian (a French neologism) Earth ----> Greek word (earth ---> erde ---> ἔρα) toothpaste ----> partially Greek word pasta/paste (πάσσω: to sprinkle) and diente/dente (δόντι) Sticker ----> Greek word for Italians (aderire: αἱρέω - prendere afferare) and also English adhesive

The 'gi' in Greek is the one from 'geo-graphy' and so on. Also 'Gaia'.

I don’t see anyone mention it in the comments but the word bicycle (that is very similar to most languages there) are from the Greek word Δίκυκλο (dikiklo) that means "two circles - wheels" for obvious reasons. The two circles-wheels of the bicycle. We use that word too for every two-wheels vehicle.

I love that Italian girl, quite knowledgeable.

The Italian girl is correct - all those words for "magic" that look/sound similar to the English girl come from Greek. And, yes, English is a Germanic language, a West Germanic language like German (Hochdeutsch) and Dutch, although it's much more closely related to Dutch than German, to the point that Frisian, a language very close to Dutch, is mutually intelligible with Old English to some extent. What happened to English is that William the Conqueror invaded England in 1066 and sprayed Norman French vocabulary all over the language, so now we have all these extra words rolling around making everything so much more confusing. The animals are cattle and pigs, but the meats are beef and pork, etc.

When you study ancient Greek you understand the majority of the roots. Especially if you study the tenses of the verbs

Yes FINALLY YOU PUT GREEK AND GENERAL GREEK AT YOUR CHANNEL THANK TOU SO MUCH LOVE AND SUPPORT FROM GREECE 🇬🇷

Omg bi - two and cicleta - wheels. Two wheels. The first is Latin the second is Greek. In Spanish we also have dentífrico.

The Greek girl is from Cyprus 🇨🇾🇬🇷💙

First time hearing greek , the most different among them , Germany and Dutch have similarities , dutch seems the middle of English-German

In Iran We Say 🇮🇷 ( Our language is a little bit hard and Unknown) Magic : Afson / Ĵado Eggplant: Bademjan Bicycle: Docherkhe Handshake: Dastdaden Erath : Zemin / Giti Sticker : Barchesb

This girl who says she is Greek, is she sure? I doubt it! She said the Greek language is Latin!!😂😂

I really like it when there is a belgian/ dutch person in it.. it really makes me connected with your videos . Thank you guys. So much❤

In Spain we do say dentífrico or pasta dentífrica too. Sticker also can be called "papel adhesivo". Clearly to understand an italian we only need to look for the most formal way of saying things because the more formal the expresion is, the closer it will be to latin

I really like the idea of a handshake being a road. There is something just lovely about the metaphor there.

I'm guessing Ellada is from Cyprus? "Ellada" is a very rare name in Greece, but the Cypriots use it quite a bit.

I think bringing a Romanian into this would be fun since we have words from latin, greek, slavic, turkish, french (I know it's grouped with latin), german and lately also english. For Romanian it would be: 1. Magic : "magie" (french - "magie" which got it from latin - magicus which got it from greek - "mageia") 2. Eggplant : "vânătă" (latin - "venetus") 3. Handshake : "strângere de mână" (latin - "stringere" and "manum" or the action of "a da mâna" (latin - "dare manum") 4. Bicycle : "bicicletă" (latin - "bi" which means two and greek - "kuklos" which means circle or wheel) 5. Earth : "Pământ" / "Terra" (latin - "pavimentum" / latin - "terra" which comes from indo-european "terse") 6. Toothpaste : "pastă de dinți" (latin

finally some content with the greek language. we need more of that

As a greek who was studying spanish and is now learning italian, my biggest help while studying both thosw languages..(esp italian tbh) was english..Like they had sime similaritues and i was already fluent in english which helped me grasp some conceots bettee..But i do find that italian and greek have similarities

the greek girl is definitely Cypriot i don’t know how but I think I can tell by the accent😂

7:01 bicicletta, two cycles, a bike has two wheels And ποδήλατο (podilato) comes from πόδι (podi) meaning foot/leg, and ηλάτης, an ancient Greek word for someone who rows. "Foot rowing machine"

the problem with English is that the language has been very romanticized so most of the words with germanic origin were replaced by French words and as it stands today only around 30% of the English vocabulary has remained Germanic and the rest is French/Latin or other random origins. Only very few select words are similar to German words, for example the very simple ones but even those have been romanticized

This Spanish versions are more similar to the Italian. Italian: Stretta di mano Spanish: Estrechar la mano Italian: Dentifricio Spanish: Dentífrico (more used in ads, it sounds more formal, more scientific) In Spanish we also have the word “adesivo”, but it’s written with h “adhesivo” and it refers to everything that sticks. So stickers, glues, tape, masking tape, duct tape, blablatape 😂 would be “adhesivos”.

They found an actual Greek goddess for this.

I'm always shocked how they are shocked that one language sounds very similar to other when it's literally the 2 closest langugages like Polish vs Czech, German vs Dutch etc Shows how little they know about world

For Bicycle in greek there are two words, podilato for the object and dicyclo that is the exact the same word in english anf means two (bi ) circles ( kykli). It a transfer in latin from ancient greek

In spanish we also have the word "dentífrico" for tooth paste, which is more similar to italian :)

greek here, yes she did some mistakes and also, her name is ellada? weird but nice. I'm not gonna repeat the other comments, yes greek and italian share a lot of similarities, one borrowing from another, living in italy for a semester i experienced it. Greek and spanish sound the same, thats why a lot of people mix us up but also can learn spanish really easily:) Then of course geran and greek might not sound or write the same, but deep down they share the same grammar as greek, because they were influenced by ancient greek, hence they have "Dativ" and many more. For example the word hippopotamus (greek word btw) in greek is "ιπποποταμος" which literally translates to "horse" and "river", and in german it has the same logic! "Nilpferd", which again translates to "river" and "horse", the horse of the river! I get too excited about languages haha.. And then you have enlgish which its roots are mostly germanic, latin and greek, so you get a nice mix of all of them! And i can speak all of the languages above (not spanish, yet). Thanks for reading

I think the Greek girl didn’t want to be the one who says everything is greek 😂 she just waited for the Italian to state it 😂

In Armenian, we don't say Terra for Earth but it is related to our word for "place", which is Tegh (originally pronounced Tel in ancient times). It's pronounced like the French word Terre but with a slightly different T sound. Watching the video as an Armenian speaker, I was expecting that Armenian would have more in common with Greek, but I'm hearing more in common with Spanish and Italian.

The girl called Ellada, doesn't actually speak mainstream Greek but the Cypriot version, hence why the pronunciation and accent are off. Not sure if she is Greek or Cypriot in terms of origin but language-wise she is definitely the former (imagine comparing UK and Ireland).

In Spain, 'the kiss on the cheek' greeting is done by girls with other girls (and guys) with whom they are close to but never guys with other guys 😆 like they do in France. Smth I observed having lived in both countries. 😄

Thank you ladies for another very interesting video .

I think the Greek girl is Greek Cypriot from Cyprus or from Rhodes. Her accent in Greek is like ours❤

In Dutch zelfklever(self sticker) is also sometimes used.

Adhesivo (Adhesive) is the name for any 'sticky' substance or material in Spanish and Dentífrico is also a valid name for toothpase. ❤

In Spanish you can also say "Dentrifico" (similar to italian) for tooth paste but is not so common. Depending on where you are, you can say Pasta Dental too. Regarding sticker, you can also say it like that but the formal way would be Auto adhesivo.

This was a very interesting video. Please more videos like this!

9:29 In Dutch some people used the word 'zelfklever' to avoid the loanword. Similar to 'Aufkleber' in German. Micah doesn't seem to know the word anymore.

Giulia has such a strong northern italian accent that it is recognizible even when she speaks in english

Greek girl literally said "Hi I am Greece from Greece" 😂

in Ukrainian, we say: Magic: магія (magija); also we have "чари" (čary) Eggplant: баклажан (baklažan) Handshake: рукопотискання (rukopotyskannja) Bicycle: велосипед (velosyped) or "ровер" (rover) Earth: Земля (Zemlja) Toothpase: зубна паста (zubna pasta) Sticker: наліпка (nalipka) hello to Slavic brothers and sisters ;)

The word for sticker in spanish is very interesting since there are a lot of options depending on the country, in Mexico we use either use 'calcomanía' or 'estampa'. But I guess the spanish girl didn't know about this words.

I think the greek girl is from Cyprus, where they have a dialect of the greek language, cypriot greek. Most people in Greece don't understand they cypriot dialect but cypriots are more familiar with greek but not as close as the Greeks are. I believe that's why she made some mistakes because she doesn't use those particular words.

Dentifricio actually comes from two latin words: denti- is from dens/dentis "tooth" and -fricio is from fricare "to rub"

I love the fact that spanish and italian were similar! And they were also similar to my national language romanian

Two things: 1. In Spanish we used "dentífrico", but well, you say "pasta de dientes" too, if you want... 2. Latin and Greek isn't the same, they are totally different languages, and don't have nothing in common, except one only thing: The indoeuropean root. (That and the important the Greek was for the Roman empire).

Hearing the Greek was so fascinating! It's not a language I hear much of.

i really like that they included some similar sounding languages this time and it's not just french, spanish and german and then everyone is surprised that german might sound different compared to the others

you should do one of this but with verbs, i studied german and was surprised by the amount of verbs that were similar to english

I would say that the word "Sticker” is used even more than the word "Aufkleber” in Germany. So, both words are right if you want to use them in Germany. I do not know why she does not mentioned it.

In UK English we call Eggplant 'Aubergine' as well. It's a French word I believe.

IIRC the word aubergine comes original from a word native to a South Asian language (I believe sanskrit?). It came to Europe through Portuguese who got it from Arab traders. With the word being something like al bergine.

I love Miki's energy and personality she's so cool and friendly

Who is that Greek girl who doesn't know Greek? Handshake is chirapsia Magic is magia

we don't usually say οδοντόπαστα (odontopasta) in Greek, the girl representing our country, doesn't sound 100% Greek. We say οδοντόκρεμα. :)

Maybe you can have the panel say their parts of the sign-off at the end of the video in their respective language (with subtitles of course!)

We study ancient Greek in Italy at school, not the current Greek they're speaking now in Greece. If you study ancient Greek you get the etymology of many Italian words. For example we say odontoiatra meaning dentist, that sounds similar to odontopasta for a reason. Even the "iatra" part of the word (meaning doctor) comes from ancient Greek.

As a greek person, can i ask all the other Greek fellons, isn't she from Cyprus?

Nice video as always. In Serbia we would say: Magic - Magija Eggplant - Plavi Patlidžan Handshake - Rukovanje Bicycle - Bicikla Earth - Zemlja Toothpaste - Pasta za zube Sticker - Nalepnica

As a Greek i haven't heard the name "Ελλαδα" since learning about Mythology. No complains though, it really sounds beautiful 💙

In my Swiss German dialect: Magic: Magii or Zauberei Eggplant: Aubergine Handshake: Händ schüttle or Handschlag or Händ gee Bicycle: Velo Earth: Ärde Toothpase: Zaapaste Sticker: Chleberli (or just Sticker nowadays)

It’s cool that they all speak English as a common language

first time that I see a Greek girl with the name Ellada which means Greece

2:40 If you want to look further back than it`s derived from the old persian wort mug or mig

The Greek girl is actually from Greece? I've never heard anyone in my life say heretisma (χαιρέτισμα), we always say hirapsia (χειραψία). I don't know about idioms, but we use only the second word in standard greek.Oh and we hug each other a lot! The hands' thing is for strangers or in very formal situations. Oh, I get it now. The Greek girl must be a Greek Cypriot that's why she has an accent, because of the idiom. And different words.

German speaker here, from where I come from we say Melanzani for eggplant (because we got the plant from the Italians) and Pickerl for sticker.

07:00 You say bicicletta from bi=two and cycle=circle=kyklos that is also Greek

The greek lady has a cypriot accent, she is greek-cypriot I guess🇬🇷🇨🇾

In German we have also the word Sticker as in Dutch. I think probably older people would rather use the word "Aufkleber", in the younger generation it could be both I guess. Sticker or Aufkleber

The Greek language has a percentage of Latin and most European countries have Latin as well as Greek words. While the English language has German in it, it also has French , Greek, Latin and the languages that were spoken before invasions from other Europeans. Thanks for the video!

6:22 You have rijwiel too, which does comsist of the same words as german fahrrad (drive+wheel), but it is old-fashioned and primarily used in the names of bike shops and streetsigns. E.g. 'Rijwielhandel De Vries' (bike store De Vries) or 'verboden rijwielen te plaatsen.' (Placing bikes prohibited) 9:29 Dutch has the wordt plakker(tje) from plakken, a synonym of kleven, which is not a direct translasion of sticker, but is something you can stick to something, a category to which stickers belong too, just like post-its and certain labels.

7:13 In Ancient Greek, Earth is also Terra (Τέρα) so similar to Spanish and Italian too...😉

In Greek bicycle is podilato, but we also have the word dicyclo and the latter means bicycle (from the words Dio that means two and the word cyclo which means circle) while the former means puled by feet. The word bicycle is a fusion Greek-Latin word.

Greek is not latin but the word "greek" is latin indeed

In polish: Magic - magia Eggplant - bakłażan Handshake - uścisk dłoni (I think, literal translation: embrace hand) Bicycle - rower Earth - Ziemia Toothpaste - pasta do zębów Sticker - naklejka (I think)

Cycle” comes ultimately from Greek κύκλος kyklos which means “wheel” and which is related to the “wheel” bicycle 🚲

Here in South Africa (British English with a local flavour) we usually say 'brinjal' for 'aubergine'. I think many people here would also know the American 'eggplant', but we never use it. If you listen carefully to the Greek 'ποδήλατο' (podilato, with the accent on the 'i'), you can hear the 'pedal' in there. In Italian, 'bicicletta' must originate from 'bi-' which has the connotation of two or double (though I don't know the etymology of 'bi') plus 'ciclo' which means 'cycle' in Italian. There are a number of German and Dutch words which are very similar to English words, such as 'water', 'cat', 'hound' for example. Many people don't realise that English is actually a Germanic language. On the other hand, Spanish, Italian and French are known as Romance languages, because they have their origin in the ancient language of Rome, namely Latin. Regarding the Italian for toothpaste, I can remember when I was a boy (more decades ago than I care to admit) and some toothpastes were sold in a flat can and known as dentifrice.

Funny how the german girl described the loudshift between all germanic languages without saying it. German, Netherlands are mostly Germanic only loudshifts, english is Germanic in its roots but then the Norman kings infused it with french and latin

In both italian and spanish they treat the c before e and i in their own way : in spain its pronounced as "th" while in italy it is "ch"

Dutch and German are actually not that different. There are words that you understand, but there are always words that are different, like German and English. There are words that mean almost the same thing or even have the same pronunciation. These are languages ​​that are more closely related, namely Germanic languages ​​and the West Germanic languages. Spanish and Italian are related to each other, namely the Romance languages. Now there are languages ​​that have actually influenced many other languages, namely Greek (its own language group or family) and Latin (Romance language). English actually originated from the Anglo-Saxon languages ​​and when you translate German or the other way around, there are the well-known false friends, these are words that are the same but have a different meaning.

This one was really good. Enjoyed it very much. As someone still improving Spanish from Spain and learning now Italian. This was very helpful and fun. Guilia is very polite

I had such a great time with everyone! Happy to learn something new in each one of these videos. Hope yall enjoyed! -Christina 🇺🇸

This girl has the strangest Greek accent I've heard so far. Sounds more like she's from Cyprus than from Greece. (Maybe she grew up abroad?). Greek language generally sounds less "heavy" and closer to the Italian. (I'm Greek)

En Panamá 🇵🇦 decimos: -Magia -Berenjena -Apretón de manos -Bicicleta o Bici -Tierra -Pasta Dental -Sticker o pegatina

Spanish and Italian are very similar and I would say the most similar out of these languages!!!

"Magic" is one of those words that we have a lot of similar words for in English too. "Magic" works as a good generic term, as you can use it to describe chemistry between two people. But "sorcery", "witchcraft", "prestidigitation", et cetera. It leaves me wondering if the Germanic substitute words in the video might mean one of the other English words?