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Longest place name in South Africa (lemmy.world)
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[–] TragicNotCute 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the name in Afrikaans means "the spring where two buffaloes were shot stone-dead with one shot" (Afrikaans: Twee buffels met een skoot morsdood geskiet fontein).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tweebuffelsmeteenskootmorsdoodgeskietfontein

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Two-buffaloes-with-one-shot-dead-shot-fountain?

[–] x00z 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"Morsdood" means something like "stone-dead" . It's used for emphasis. "Dood" would be "dead".

[–] LarsIsCool 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

~~And "een" would be translated to "a" I think~~

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[–] x00z 2 points 1 month ago

In Afrikaans "a" is mostly written as 'n while "one" is written as "een". Afrikaans comes from Dutch and in Dutch "a" could be both 'n and "een", while "one" is mostly written as "één" to help with pronunciation. In Afrikaans they dropped the ´.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=af&text=a%20boy%20and%20a%20girl.%20one%20boy%20and%20one%20girl&op=translate