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[–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

The Russian and Ukrainian ones aren't correct. They say "90" as something along the lines of "nine but hundred".

The tens are:

Ten

Two ten

Three ten

Sorok

Five ten

Six ten

Seven ten

Eight ten

Nine but hundred

(Plus, these all have contractions, but it's easy to hear where the words stem from)

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Sorok is 40 sable furs tied together for easier countiing while trading, it is soooo obvious!

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    And of course, to go further into nothing making any sense:

    The Finnish language took the Russian word for sable, sóbol, and made a word of its own based off that: sopuli. But sopuli doesn't mean sable. It means lemming. Somebody got confused. Later they heard about sable and named it soopeli in Finnish.

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