▲ 219 ▼ Everything ok Denmark and France? (lemmy.world) submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/justpost@lemmy.world 47 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] lumpyluggage@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children) Suddenly... Sorok! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] toofpic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Sorok is 40 sable furs tied together for easier countiing while trading, it is soooo obvious! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] toofpic@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 child) Sorok is 40 sable furs tied together for easier countiing while trading, it is soooo obvious! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Lehmuusa@nord.pub 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. permalink fedilink source parent
