• Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Kameldýr

    Camel + animal? I wonder, does the element “kamel” resembles any other, non-animal words? (I studied Icelandic a bit as a teen, but it’s been a long time since then.)

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      2 days ago

      Not any word I know about. Chameleons are named Kamelljón (Camel + lion) but that’s just because it sounds like the English word. As far as I know, “kamel” is just loaned directly from other languages.