Comparison of European Languages: ANIMALS 

Thank you so much for doing this. I found it fascinating.

You made a small mistake in Eastern Slavic languages about word goat. You placed masculine version козёл (koziol or kozel), but feminine коза (koza) as a Ukrainian and Belarusian one. In fact, all our languages have the same masculine-feminine pair. Russian: козёл - коза (koziol - koza), Belarusian: казёл - каза (kazioł - kaza, pronounced just as in Russian), Ukrainian: козел - коза (kozel - koza), and Ukrainian (especially Western versions) also has especially masculine version цап (tsap) - a loanword from Romania Same mistake you've made about South Slavic languages as the maculine form "jarac" and feminine "koza" are the same among the whole Serbo-Croatian language territory. Samely, word "medved/medvjed" is universal for all Serbo-Croatian, and "snositi is something like the verb "to bring" or "to bear", it may be a translators bug

3:43 Word for Bear in Croatian is Medvjed, like other Slavic languages. 'Snositi' is a verb, like 'bearing'.

Interesting idea but there's important element of gender (or synonyms) missing here as metioned by previous commentators. For some languages you give a male variant for others - female which make it sound like those languages use different words when in fact they use the same e.g kot (male cat) and koshka(female cat): kozel (male goat) and koza (female goat)

"akula" is a borrowing from Scandinavian. therefore, it was also worth marking green. kot and koshka it's the same word that is spelled differently for different genders. A koska is a female cat. Kot - male. therefore, Russian, Czech, Belarusian and Bulgarian should be marked in blue. the dog also. a sobaka is a female dog. the pios is male.

In Russian Lyagushka(Лягушка) - frog Zhaba(Жаба) - Toad

2:30 in russia we also say "kot"

Nicely done. Exceptional graphics. The map was especially helpful. And the amount of information contained on it was extraordinary. Fantastic effort. Thanks.

Romanian pasare is not same family as Slavic languages. Romanian pasare ("bird") comes from Latin passer, passerem ("sparrow")

2:20 Slovak word for cat is "mačka" same as Serbo-Croatian and Hungarian. "Kat" in slovak means "executioner"

The last is curious because in 1700s English they called giraffes "cameleopards" (camel plus leopard) so apparently that archaic term was EUrope-wide until it was replaced by "giraffe" but in Greece they retain that old "cameleopard" word.

Nice, but here are some mistakes for Croatian: - Goat is koza like in other balkan languages, jarac means a male goat but we usually say koza when refering to the species. - Bear is medvjed. Snositi is a werb, and it means to bear something, like bearing a grudge, so you probably got the werb instead of the noun when you translated it. - A rabbit is kunić, while the term zec refers to a wild hare

"Ziege" is definitely more common for "goat" in German...

Slovak word for cat is "mačka". Or eventually "kocúr" ("kocour" in Czech) if you want to specify male cat. The word "kat" exists in Slovak too, but with a slightly different meaning -> executioner (or hangman). And small diacritic correction for the word bear - it is medveď, not medved. Small apostrophe (soft mark) behind the last letter "d" is missing, there is a small difference in pronunciation of that letter.

Rabbits are also called "Kaninchen" in German. "Hase" means hare, although people in Germany often confuse Hase and Kaninchen with each other and call rabbits Hase as well. And a goat is normally called "Ziege" in German. "Geiß" is an old word that has gotten out of use.

The usual Spanish word for dog is "perro", in Catalan it is "gos". The German word "Geiß" is more of a term for a female, more or less goat-like animal. The normal word is "Ziege", which I believe could be related to Spanish "cabra", French "chèvre" etc. The German word for "rabbit" is "Kaninchen". German "Hase" means "hare". Another French word for "hare" is "lièvre", which I assume could be related to Romanian "iepure". Russian "kotka" is the same etymon as other slavic instances of "kot" and therefore does not warrant a different color. Spanisch "pájaro" and Romanian "pasare" are surely related, going back to Latin "passer".

really high quality you deserve more subs :D

What appears to be Galician (it's written where Galicia is) is actually Basque.

in russian "female goat" - koza; male goat - kozel. The same for cat: koshka - female cat, male - kot. In russian male dog - pes. lyagushka and zhaba (there is such word in Russian) - frog and toad different animals.

Russian 1:50 - *Kozyol is more accurate for russian pronunciation also idk and idc if it was made accidentally or on purpose but there were used the male variant of "goat", while the other slavic languages used the female variant of goat while both are valid until the gender of the goat is defined. the same is on 2:20 you use a female variant of "cat" in some slavic languages defining it like this word is not related to other slavic languages okay, the female variant of "cat" in russian is more common while in polish or ukrainian the male variant is being used more often than female. But it's fair while many other european languages also use the female variations of "cat"(greek and german for example). Also i am being silent about the female words for cat in polish and ukrainian are pretty almost equal to bulgarian and russian(idk about the others) 5:20 "aleni" is a plural form in Belorussian... 6:50 the same about the dog the russian, belorussian and bulgarian(never knew they use it too) word for female dog is not related to its male variation(sobaka and pes), that's absolutely different words, but okay, "pes" is of slavic origin 7:20 lyagushka is a frog zhaba is a toad 8:50 what is zhirafa ??? it's zhiraf and it's borrowed from french "giraffe" which is pronounced as [zh i r a f] lol

Shark has this interesting connection: Turkish “köpek balığı” literally means “dog fish” and the Croatian “morski pas” literally means: “sea dog”.

These are great, and it's so good to see Welsh, Irish and Scots Gaelic included. Can you also include Breton, spoken in Brittany and the sister language of Welsh? Thanks for your work.

In Italy we say most "mucca" instead of "vacca" cause It's commonly used as an insulting word.

The Bulgarian word for dog is куче/kuche, we also use pes or pse but mostly referring to a stray dog

In Dutch, another word for "adelaar" (= eagle) is "arend" which is also commonly used and refers to the same animal. The word "arend" looks a lot more like "örn" already, so I would've given the Germanic languages (except for English) the same colour tbh.

correction: in Croatian, the word for "Bear", the animal, is "medvjed" like its other slavic counterparts. i believe the confusion happend when you inputted it as the verb and not the noun! "snositi" means "TO bear" in Serbian, the word we use for "Rabbit" is "Zec" not "Zeca'", but i believe this is just a typo

A German would know what you mean by Geiß but most people would say Ziege. Also, all nouns are capitalised in German.

«Løve» is the Norwegian word for lion, løven means «the lion» Edit 1: Pasăre is not in the Slavic family. It is almost the same as the Portuguese and Spanish but it is ok. It is hard to control all the languages in Europe there are a lot of them. but a good video still😀😄

Some errors in Croatian: Female goat is "koza", but male goat is "jarac" Word "snositi" means to bear not bear as animal 💀 Bear is medvjed Flamingo is "plamenac"

In Spanish language the first word that comes to mind when one refers to a dog is "perro".

Thank you for this. Just a slight correction, the Scottish Gaelic for cow is not Mart, but Bo

No one's gonna talk about how Romania occupied Odesa?

You guys blindly translated a bunch of stuff without realizing that Slavic languages have two versions of some animals... feminine and masculine... Like in Russian, Koshka is a female cate... just like in Polish, Kotka... but a male cate is still KOT. Same with the goat... you used a female version for all Slavic countries, like KOZA... but Kozel for Russian... it is Koza as a female goat for all Slavic countries, and KOZEL (or KOZJOL) for a male goat. By the way, Slavik Akula came from old Scandinavic Harkal... like in the Icelandic language... they are 100% related. Current Germanic Hai is also related to Harkal. The bear in Croatian is "medvjed" as in pretty much the rest of the Slavic countries. That means "knows about honey"... what you used is the actual verb "to bear" or "to carry." The word dog... yeah... in Russian and Bulgarian, "Sobaka" is a word that came from proto Turk language and usually is referred to a female dog... but both languages still have the words "pes" or "pios" (or older psina) that is referred to a male dog, which is 100% slavic. Zhaba in Russian means the toad, which is a big frog... I won't bother with the rabbit... because in all Slavic languages, there is a mix-up between the rabbit and hare... But Zajac exists in pretty much all Slavic languages and usually means hare or wild rabbit... meanwhile, a domesticated rabbit can be called krolik or trus or whatever.

Good video. One correction: in Bulgarian we don’t call a dog “sobaka” like in Russian. We say “kuche” instead. 😉

Too many mistakes in the video 😑

The English word rabbit originally referred to the young of what was called a cony or coney, which is a word very similar to that found in other Germanic languages. In Britain it would rhyme with honey and money as /cunny/, rather than the pleasure beach in New York as cohnee, like phoney. Unfortunately that would be identical to a popular form of a word that will make RU-vid explode if I use it, so by a process called Taboo Deformation rabbit came to replace it. BTW, did you know that chicken was originally a plural like children, that is a plural of chick?

In russian we usually say zhiraf (жираф), not zhirafa. Eagle sounds like oriol or oröl (орёл). Goat koziol (козёл) - masculine, koza (коза) - feminine; cat кот - masculine, koshka - feminine

Excellent video! Especially because you include Greenlandic! So beautiful language and we are happy to be a part of Europe!

Another correction: in Italian, "bird" is named "uccello", with double C

All very fine, but you should place the basque a little more to the right.👍

Dog: In Spain usually is used "perro" instead of "can", and in Catalonia usually we say "gos" instead of "ca". "Ca" is more used in the french part of Catalonia

The Romanian word for eagle is "acvila". The bird you have shown was an eagle. "Vultur" means "vulture". There are several species of eagles in Romania and several species of vultures. Somewhat similar birds, but not identical.

A note on German: All nouns (including animals) are capitalized, so the correct spelling is: Hai, Schildkröte, Adler, and so on.

About Faroese: hávur is missing the acute accent over the a. Another word for lion is ljón. On that note, the Icelandic word is also ljón. Ljónið is the definite form (so "the lion") Another word for flamingo is flæmingur. Quite rare though.

Bulgarian has ''желка/желва'' for turtle too. Also in some dialects we have ''мачка'' as cat. And we have ''медвед'' for a bear too but it's old-fashioned. Also we ''миш'' for male mouse but that word is old-fashioned and also ''глушец.'' We have ''пес/псе'' as street dog.

In Russian Cat Kot - ♂️ Koshka - ♀️

How could the word "slon" (elephant) have originated in Slavic languages if elephants do not live there?

Croatian word for 'bear' is MEDVJED or MEDVED, depending on dialect! As i see on your map, word 'snositi' does not connect to that particular animal in any way.

In Sardninia, in certain zones, we call the cat "pisitu" and the bird "pilloni" In Spanish the dog is also "perro"

Flamenco is flamenco everywhere. Looks like everyone watched Miami Vice.

In relation to slavic languages the comparison in many cases is incorrect as the vid uses the name of the animals in different languages in different genders, hence the names differ

Another Finnish word for rabbit is "jänis" which I think is related to the Estonian word.

Admit it, Crocodile and Giraffe were there for us to stare at the Greenland words 😅

Lol looks like you typed "bear" in Google translate and it translated the verb "to bear" verb instead of the animal in Croatian

In Lusatian (Slavic language in eastern Germany), I strongly doubt that "kočka" is a shark and "žaba" is a goat. I believe, that "kočka" is a cat and "žaba" is a frog, just like in other related Slavic languages. The mistakes in Slovakian and Croatian were already mentioned.

bear = snositi is a wrong translation (google translate did translate "bear" as in "bear with me")

As a Greek, I have to say 3 things. First I was amused when I saw that EVERYONE even the Turks used the word Giraffe in some form Yet, we say Kamilopárdali. Second, I saw that the albanians call the bird "zog" and I wondered if their king's name Zog I ment "bird the first" 😂😂😂. And third, I saw that in Turkish, the dog is Köpek and the shark is Köpek baliği and this reminds me of Greek. In Greek we sometimes call the big fish "Skylópsara" which means dogfishes. Maybe it's the same in Turkish.

Hmmm.... Nice, but I found a few of the Spanish translations to be uncommon in modern Spanish. Eg, deer = vanado usually and dog = perro almost always!

I cant see any similarity between pies/pies/pas and sobaka/sabaka. Is it?

In ROMANIA for the EAGLE you should use ACVILA !

Kozel is a male, koza is a female. But I translated from Czech, there is vice versa...

slovak cat = mačka not "kat"....

Just notice the comparison of Finnish and Estonian. Giraffe in Estonian is descriptive - kael means neck, kirjak means patterned. Patterned neck.

İncluding Kurdish is a very beautiful detail, thank you

Well, Latvian word for turtle - bruņurupucis - is the same as German one, it's just translated that's why it doesn't look the same, but the meaning is - shielded (or armored) toad.

In Bulgarian "dog" is "kuche" not "sobaka"

great video but i miss some languages like gallician

Cat in Belarusian is kot, while koška means female cat.

Oroszlán and Aslan are good examples why hungarian words are very strange. Hungarians got the word from Turkey but as usual the hungarian language allows it to be modified but some parts still understandable. Oro -szlán --> A-slan the end sounds the same.

7:56 "Ucello" doesn t exist in Italian. Uccello is the common name for a bird

In Spain the name for dog is PERRO (Iberian pre-Roman word). Also CAN but much less frequent.

I am most surprised to see gagauzian words. Very small nation, but it was included too.

Alieni is plural in Belarusian.

In Bulgarian dog is Kuche, not sobaka

geiß is not so common as "ziege" in German (goat)

Romania just wants to be different, with so many of them.

Bear = Medvjed in Croatia

Russian: kot = Male Cat koshka = female cat

szarvas means who have horn, its not from latin cervus.

Dog in Bulgarian is ,,kuche", like in the Macedonian norm, but ,,pes" is also sometimes used. Idk why you put ,,sobaka" there, it is clearly a Russian word.

Okay, that wrong at least for Russian. At first most animal on Russian have different names drpends if it's male or female. Same for Belarusian and Ukrainian. For example goat Kozel is a male goat Koza is a female goat Cat: Koshka is a female Cat Kot is a male Cat Dog: It can be Sobaka it can be Pes depends on a sentence, it synonimus. Frog: It can be lyagushka it can be zhaba. Depends on the type of frog. That's only the those that I remembered. I mean if it wrong almost in 80% of cases in one language I know well, it ptobably as accurate for the other languages as well.

Russian also has коза (koza) for goat. Slovak "kat" doesn't mean "cat" but an executioner. 💀💀💀 Mačka is the right word. Medveď* in Slovak. Králík in Czech, králičí is the meat.

How hirved is related to rådjur? Hirvi in Finnish means moose and põder in Estonian is moose. Peura in Finnish is deer as video shows.

There are some variations & spelling issues too. Remember there'e 'turtle' & there's 'tortoise', make sure that you translate the right one in all countries.

there is a mistake about the rabbit. kanin in scandinavia. you had hase in germany that is not correct. hase is another animal that looks similar but has longer ears and legs. germans say kaninchen to the animal that is depicted.

Rabbit can be 'kani' if it is a pet. A wild rabbit is called ' jänis ' or ' rusakko ' in finnish.

We can see that every exotic animals have "english prononciation wrote in irish" in gaeilge.

So corrections for croatian: Bear - medvjed (NOT "snositi") Goat - koza (NOT "jarac"; jarac only means - male goat) Flamingo - plamenac (NOT "flamingo")

5.45 caoriol is a capreolus not a cervus

You were wrong In Russian: "Koza" = fem. goat; "Koshka" = fem. cat, male - "Cot"; Dog = "sobaka" if in general, but "pes" if male; Frog = "Lyagushka" if small "Zhaba" if big; Hare = Zayats, not rabbit (rabbit means rabbit).

German "Hund" is the same family as English "dog"?

Flamingo in Croat is plamenac.

The italian for bird is uccello with double “c”.

Hungarian beka and Turkish kurbağa are cognates, meaning "frog".

Dog in Catalan is called "gos" or "gossa" if it is a female.

ALL Europe: Flamingo Italians: Fenicottero

You may note that dog in English is unique to us. There are several others: woman, girl and boy, which together with dog completes the family circle. Husband is also unique to English.

Euskara? - where is noble Basque language?

the sorbian words for shark (žrawec, not kóčka, that's cat), goat (koza, not žaba, that's toad) and dog (pos, not hunt, that's maybe a colloquial germanism) are wrong ;) otherwise, it was fun .

Why don't you use Armenian & Georgian languages in this program ?