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Longest place name in South Africa (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 weeks ago (4 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 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks 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