Seasons - European languages comparison 

I mean, lets take into considerarion that talking about seasons in Norway or Russia is a bit of a stretch

@@Remains123 Oh, these stereotypes about nothern countries : ) We are not living on the north pole, so we have the same seasons : )

@@alexanderlobanov3880 Also Russia is a pretty big country, so you can have 4 seasons within the same day

​@@Remains123 Summers and winters have a huge contrast up north since the length of day and night wary hugely more depending on the season compared to places nearer to the equator. Let's just say one can't help noticing the difference.

There can be drastic differences even within one group of languages. For instance, Slavic names of the seasons are sometimes shockingly unexpected.

Oh thats cool. I didn't know we where speciel in that regard, though the other scandinavian words are also used at times by old timers

Dont cry

This reminded me about regan joke ,,There are four problems woth soviet agriculture: spring summer winter and fall."

Still better than four times summer, which has 50% of world population

In Ireland you can have all four in one day.

lmao. More like Winter, Winter, Scorching hot Africa summer, Winter.

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O thanks, now I know a word in Finnish, So Can I have a vasara please? 😀

That`s because in lato we`re siting in lato. 😉

Its funny, the word ''kesä'' (in estonian kesa), describes a type of field that is prepared for tilling late crop. It is done during summer.

@@rockmcdwayne1710 That is kesanto. The month when it was done (June) was called kesökuuand it gave the name to the whole season. Most Finns think the season gave the name to the month.

@@okaro6595 Word ''kesökuuand'' is ''kesakuu'' in estonian. Truth be told, its kind of funny how the two languages have picked different words for many things but, the rootword is somewhat recognizable to both. On many occasions it sounds weird though xD

they don't

@@foocland57273 They actually do that, I'm sardinian myself.

That's not exactly it. The thing is that the current Spanish and other languages word for Spring mean, in a way, " first Summer"

@@adrianomiguelfonteswow! This is so interesting and cool! It totally makes sense: prima- (first/primer) vera (summer/verano).

@@newton983 same in romanian primavara

In an old song in German it says: Nun will der Lenz uns grüssen, von Mittag weht es lau ..." But the word Lenz for Frühling is no longer actively used anymore

Ist wie das deutsche Frühjahr oder Plattdeutsch Freujohr.

@@danigeschwindelt1795 That's fascinating!

in albanian, "Behar" means summer (its another word to say the same thing) albanian has a lot of turkish world (like batanije, çarçaf, çakmak etc...)

i dont care

@@user-xh7wg6yn5o nobody cares that you supposedly don't care but care enough to feel the need to mention that you supposedly don't care

@@user-xh7wg6yn5o Ok kid.

Baba öğreteceksin Türkçe'yi herkese :)

More specifically ... ἔαρ (éar), from Proto-Hellenic *wéhər, from Proto-Indo-European *wésr̥ (source wiktionary) ... also a derivative is often used in the adjective earinó (referring to spring)

Also isn't the month name 'April' from the Latin/Romance for 'open' too? Abrir in Spanish for example.

@@leod-sigefast so I checked it because I've never thought about it..apparently the etimology of April is debated but it sound interesting

otvoRITI (to open something) koverta(envelope) Vrata(door) guess what language ?

@@PlaviStrumf romanian?

@@gi1937 bosanski/srpski

Slavic power 💪

Wait

No they didn't

:)

Czech didn't agree on autumn

Yes

Veneto is a separate language.

@@martintuma9974 a separate language has its own army, if not, it's a dialect

@@Sedobreev That's a political point of view. From linguistic and more right point of view it's a separate language. And like all other languages has its macrodialects (group of similar variations, for example central Venetian, Brasilian Venetian or colonial Venetian), dialects (variations, for example Paduna, Veronese, Vicentino...), subdialects (for example Chioggiotto, Venetian of the city of Venice, northern Paduan...) and idiolects (the way someone speak those languages)

What's so fun about it? It has it's own characteristics that makes it worthy of being in the video (I whish more local languages were in the video, but there wasn't enough space on the map)

@@Sedobreev Also Venice had its army and a language born like so can't become a dialect. A dialect can become a language though. Speaking from a linguistic point of view. From a political point of view what makes a language become a dialect is political discrimination

In Portuguese we have the two words as well.

Hungarians are Finno-Ugrians who came from behind the Urals

You can google

@@user-rw2bg8er2s you think I didn't know this 😂😂😂😂

@@mysteriousDSF Your first comment shows exactly that

@@joaocruzsilva we are related but we're extremely distant from them in every way so I find any tangible similarities fascinating!

Yep it is not unheard of. Especially by old people

Even the Baltic ones.

Але у вимові вони насправді різні😅

També en català podem trobar "entretemps" ampliament acceptat com a sinònim de tardor, "autumne" és una acepció vàlida però en desús a l'actualitat. Li faig saber que "davalada" em sembla una paraula veritablement bonica. Una fòrta abraçada, benvolut amic occitan.

@@XnofanofcopsX Mercés 🙂 en occitan, "entretemps" a una autra significacion: es sinonime de "mentretant" e "d'aquel temps" ("meanwhile" en anglés).

It also means "thighs" in some Slavic languages by the way.

Or vice a versa, or they are just cognates

@@Sungawakan You are absolutely right. That is what I found in the online Etymological dictionary of Lithuanian Language of Vilnius University - Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė (with my minor translations from Lithuanian): Ossetian zymæg/zumæg winter. Indoeuropean root *g̑heim-, *g̑heym-. From which - Iranian ans Slavic *zima-. Ossetian (Caucasus Iranian language0 refects the form strengthened with the suffix -ka- (*zimaka-), Persian - with the component -stāna- (*zimstāna-). In some Iranian languages it happens with the meaning ‘snow’. Compare Persian zam ‘frost, chill', zamistān ‘winter', Pehlevi zam, zamstān, Vaneci zəma, Afghan zimai ‘winter’, Pamirian v. zəm, zam, Pamirian zaman, zəmun ‘snow’, Sogdian *zᵃmāk (zm’k), Sakan ysumi ‘winter’, ysämana ‘wintery’ (Konow, Gramm. 19, Bailey, Saka Dictionary 353 and further, 351), Avestan zyam-, zima- ‘winter’, zəmaka-, ‘winter storm’, Sanskrit himā-, hemanta- ‘winter’, hima- ‘frost, chill’, śatahima- (Osset. sædæzym-) ‘age of a hundred winters', Old Slavic zima, r. зима, Lithuanian žiemà, Latvian. zìema, Latin hiems, Irish gaim, Greek χεῖμα, χειμών ‘winter; frost’, Hetite gimmant- ‘winter'. In conglomerate sawzym ‘snowless ("black")winter’ we have „a pure stem zym, neuter. zujmon (but not *zumægon ‘wintery, of winter […]. Vowel u (Digiron. zumæg) - instead of 'u' 'i' here is very unexpected. Yet instability of root vowel is observed also in other Iranian languages : Sak ysumi neighbouring with ysämāna-, Avestan. zim- and zəm-, Persian zamistān and zimistān, Pehlevi zam, zim etc. Probably in , Ossetian language it was a transitional degree with reduced vowel *zəm- (zəm-, from which because of 'm' influence evolved labialized 'u', as also myd/mud from madu- (honey), dymyn/dumun ‘blow’ from dam- etc. Also look at ¹zym, ²zym, zymægon. Миллер ОЭ I 129₁₃₆; II 54, 82;Gr. 20; Hübschmann Oss. 40; ОЯФ I 19.

Proto-Balto-Slavic language 🤔🤔

Not in England though

As a not native speaker I learned that fall is used only in simplified versions of English aka American English

as someone who has lived in england for most of their life, nobody says "fall", we all say autumn. fall is an american thing i believe

In north American English only. I believe it used to be used in the UK at some point and can be found in older literature but is not used now. You only hear it from Americans. By the way, it has struck my how often (not ALWAYS before somebody shouts at me!!) when it's different from American English, the term used in the UK is the same one used in Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Anglophone Africa and often even Canada. So our habit of saying American English versus British English should perhaps be American English versus Non-American English. Eg the Americans are the only English speakers in the world to call this letter Z - zee. The rest of the English speaking world says zed, even the Canadians.

Also, the Romance languages’ term for Winter is very similar to Hibern, a common prefix for cold things.

Check spanish and potugese and something similar in baltics

Because Romanians stole words from Italian, Latin, Spanish, French and many other languages. They are ethnically close to Albanians. There are also many Slavic words in the Romanian language, but also Hungarian, Turkish, German and English. Romanian is a stolen language.

@@benyovszkyistvan408 It seems being an idiot is not painful Istvan if you talk about stolen things, your current lands are stolen, in this part of the Europe you are the single one that is not from here Do not talk about things you do not know.

And sardinian (from where the albanian has borrowed)

@@raulepure9840 just report that trash and ignore him, all his comments are xenophobic remarks towards Romania

Not necessarily, Switzerland is genetically and culturally gallo-roman but linguistically germanic. Linguistics can indeed indicate certain things from the past however

Buen dato. Its could be nice to be added to the map.

Похоже ,вы уже все видео на канале изучили ...)

Mostly the same thing is in Tatar language

Sámi

like hammering down because of the extreme heat- duuuh

Both 'suvi' and 'kesä' are ancient words for summer. Historically 'suvi' has been the main word for summer in the southwest dialects of Finnish, while 'kesä' was only used in the eastern dialects and in Karelia. In the 19th century when the Finnish book language ("kirjakieli") was being crafted, they chose 'kesä' to be the main word for summer. This caused 'suvi' to lose it popularity. The same thing happened to the word 'ehtoo' ("evening") which was originally the main word for evening in the western dialects of Finnish, but was later replaced by 'ilta'.

@@closetmonster5057 ehtoo sounds more similar to Hungarian este.

yeah portuguese words dont ever end with an "n" to begin with....

@@Bajolzas wrong. Sémen, abdómen, glúten, cólon, hífen, espécimen, etc

@@skurinski Those words are generally newly formed words or latinisms.

It is the same in spanish (in spanish hell is infierno and winter is invierno)

Beware of false friends. Inverno derives from Latin hibernus, while Inferno derives from Latin inferus which has cognates in languages as distant as German "unter" and Sanskrit "ádhara".

Winter is the best season in my opinion. Summer is overrated, autumn is too depressing and too wet, spring is only season that can stand close to winter. Manuprāt, ziema ir vislabākais gadalaiks no visiem. Vasara ir pārvērtēta, rudens ir pārāk depresīvs un pārāk slapjš, savukārt pavasaris ir vienīgais gadalaiks, kas stāv klāt ziemai.

the original sound is zhar and later it turned in to jahr or year that's the secret in the bosnian language zhar-ember

the word for summer is the odd one but is asturian part of romance or iberian languages?

@@michamumot2668 Asturian is a romance language from the north of Spain

In Macedonian it's prolet

It is true, in Portuguese we spell Outono. In Portuguese we have a plethora of words with a final N, like hífen, fóton, eléctron, pólen, glúten, plâncton and many others.

@ I stand corrected, although I wouldn't say there are "many others". This are afterall exceptions. Also, I'm supposing you are refering to brazilian portuguese. In portuguese (from Portugal), the words "fóton" and "electron" do not exist instead we use fotão and eletrão, respectively.

@@1tuttyfruti Yes, Brazilian Portuguese, so in Iberian Portuguese you spell fotão and eletrão, very cool !

In Spanish words can only end in vowels or in d, j, l, n, r, s and z.

​@nelson too

That's good. Your language is unique. - Hungarians know...

​@@tanultorosz Hungarians at least have Finlandese and Estonian somewhere else

It is always worth checking Albanian words for the Romanian ones. You'll often find correlations, like 'summer', spring' here.

Is turkish, mate

That is a turkish word,not an official albanian word.

@@tesivora9214 i know but its still used

@@Jason-cu2tz i know

behar means blossom

Разница не велика Что бухтеть то?

@@sampcactus що?

@@sampcactus чтоб на Русское не была похожа наверно. Лол

@@dl8909 Походу

In Bulgarian ''ljato'' can mean ''year'' too and in Russian is ''ljet''

it is simply the cycle of the seasons of the year. it is logical that for all the Slavs one can say that one spring has passed, Summer, winter, autumn. And all this will be equal to a year

we can also say ljeto for a year like many summers ago instead of many years ago... but that dont make it a godina now does it? :)

@@GrasmesterTvoegoOhka the word year is an old serbian word or bosnian whatever the word iz zhar(for ember) like hot zhizha when you tell a baby its the sun (zharko) the name comes from that ..and the zh became y(j) and zhar became jahr in german and year later on...(uzhareno sunce) (sveti jarilo) saint yarilo (personification of the sun ) or ilija (later some greek dude wrote down illyria and the whole region became illyria because of him lol...the tribes of balkans(fun times)

my grandma used to say lani for last year thats some bosnian shit right there son lol

Oh.. you got pavasaris right and vasara wrong, oof

@@CatlyTheCat While the tilde is of course not used in standard Lithuanian orthography, "vãsara" is the form you will often find in dictionaries. The tilde denotes the stress and tone.

It's right for autumn and spring but not not for summer. O always pronounced like O when it's write in end of the word, so "lieto" more close to thr right version.