A continuation from the other board! First up:
Japanese
豆
Mame
"Beans"
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My name means either "person who trumpets minor points of learning" or "maker of words." That fact that it means the latter in Sindarin is a demonstration of the former. Beware.
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German
Pflock
stake
Pflock
stake
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Stake as in company or vampire?
My name means either "person who trumpets minor points of learning" or "maker of words." That fact that it means the latter in Sindarin is a demonstration of the former. Beware.
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Swahili
Mphishi
Chef
Mphishi
Chef
My name means either "person who trumpets minor points of learning" or "maker of words." That fact that it means the latter in Sindarin is a demonstration of the former. Beware.
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Hello again, H-W!
Müller tossed me some other interesting curveballs as well. "Stanitzel" turns out to be a common Austrian German term that I simply don't remember coming across before but I still haven't been able to find a definition of "Spinnrose" anywhere and "Vinilin" took some sleuthing.
Müller tossed me some other interesting curveballs as well. "Stanitzel" turns out to be a common Austrian German term that I simply don't remember coming across before but I still haven't been able to find a definition of "Spinnrose" anywhere and "Vinilin" took some sleuthing.
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I have no idea what a Spinnrose is, either; Austrian German sometimes feels like a foreign language. 
From googling a bit I see that there seem to be two meanings - a type of rose and some kind of accessory or clothing; the sources for the latter meaning all seem to be 18th or 19th century texts.
From googling a bit I see that there seem to be two meanings - a type of rose and some kind of accessory or clothing; the sources for the latter meaning all seem to be 18th or 19th century texts.-
akam chinjir
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Mandarin
性別友善
xìngbié yǒushàn
"gender-friendly" (≈ unisex, I guess; on the door to some public toilets)
性別友善
xìngbié yǒushàn
"gender-friendly" (≈ unisex, I guess; on the door to some public toilets)
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Welsh
och(e)neidio
sighing
och(e)neidio
sighing
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Hyolobrika
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I live in Wales. I may have cause to use this one day.
Thanks.
My name is meant to be pronounced [çɔˈlɔːbrɪkʌ], but you can pronounce it any way you like.
The initial palatal fricative can be replaced by [hj] and the final vowel by [a] (I think that's the right IPA symbol).
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Fiat verba, fiat grammatica, fiat lingua!
The initial palatal fricative can be replaced by [hj] and the final vowel by [a] (I think that's the right IPA symbol).
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Fiat verba, fiat grammatica, fiat lingua!
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An English monosyllable for once (for those who care about them):
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'
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I learned that word thanks to Sue Harrison.
But if of ships I now should sing, what ship would come to me?
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?
What ship would bear me ever back across so wide a Sea?
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IME it's much broader in use than wiktionary suggests - I've heard it used for any stripping of bodily matter more substantial than flaying. For instance, systematically removing flesh from bone, particularly of other people. I know I've seen experts talking about the distinctive cuts on bone indicating cannibalism as signs of flensing. But it may be that that's an extended usage from the concept of the flensing knife (knife for flensing, ergo whatever you use it for is flensing?).
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Never seen this one before, though I guess it's common jargon: spox, "spokesperson". I'm guessing it's pronounced spoxe?
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akam chinjir
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直男癌 zhínánái, character by character it's straight male cancer, but actually it's mansplaining.
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díoltas "vengeance" (e.g. díoltas a dhéanamh ar to get revenge on) but also "grudge" in the construction tá díoltas agam do "I have a grudge against him".
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varve
An annually-deposited sediment layer (occuring only where there was historically fresh or brackish water).
An annually-deposited sediment layer (occuring only where there was historically fresh or brackish water).