| Excellent quiz. A little harder than other Scandinavian languages, because Icelandic tends to translate literally almost every name. So you have Grænhöfðaeyjar, literally "Islands of the Green Cape" where græn = green and höfða = cape (cognate with English "head"). Also Svartfjallaland (Montenegro) is "black mountain" where svart (black) is schwarz in German. The most curious, however, is Ivory Coast, where you have "fíl" (elephant), a borrowing from Arabic that also appears in Spanish "marfil" (ivory). Of course Spanish has a lot of Arabic words, but I never expected to find one in Icelandic. |
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