Animal names in German

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HOW TO NAME
Millielm(
DOES IT
LOOK LIKE
A PIG?
S( Iua/ em ARE
YOU SURE?
WHERE DID
YOU SEE IT?
DOES IT LOOK
LIKE ANOTHER
KIND OF ANIMAL?
FRIENDS SOUTH
HOUSE AMERICA
DOES IT
LOOK "
spike my
ves, aua
SMALLER
wash
hear
A CHICKEN?
IS IT on
LUMPA? SEEK?
TES, am
BIGGER &
seamen
sea My my mm:
Bin
chicken
ATRADE
x WHAT DOES
IT DO? smelt:
lead
A SNAIL?
TES, am
SHELL
naked
snail
be" y FISH?
Human
Guns/ Her
new
KNOW
my IT seamen
mmr.
Ink
ahmal
I A MOUSE?
I YES.
l aux IT an
flutter
mouse
SOMETHING
REALLY WEIRD‘!
THE
WEIRDEST
we EVER
sum

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Submitted:	11/22/2015

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#1 - solidderking (11/22/2015) [-]

as a german i can confirm this
we are very good at making up names

#40 to #1 - theoldfritz (11/23/2015) [-]

we are very good at neuwörtererfindung*

#45 to #40 - solidderking (11/23/2015) [-]

which includes the word neuwörtererfindung, which also happens to be a neuwörtererfindung

#47 to #45 - theoldfritz (11/23/2015) [-]

in regular lanugages this inst normal
but on german, it is
german, not even once

+14

#7 to #1 - janeyzombie (11/23/2015) [-]

Flystuff

+11

#19 to #7 - enferax (11/23/2015) [-]

Sometimes it gets ridicolous. This is an Otter. It comes in different shapes. Fischotter, Seeotter, Zwergotter.

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#20 to #19 - enferax (11/23/2015) [-]

This is a Kreuzotter. Obviously a snake. I think at this point they didn't care anymore.

#21 to #7 - thescyle (11/23/2015) [-]

you see, the good thing about this is, in german you rarely have to ask what something means. Just ask what its called and you probably get the explanation right along in the name.

#39 to #7 - anon (11/23/2015) [-]

FLUGZEUG

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#9 - nought (11/23/2015) [-]

glove = handschuh
that's right, hand shoe

#27 to #9 - mion (11/23/2015) [-]

Well, gloves are like shoes for your hands in winter, so it's not too odd imo.

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#5 - squidbaby (11/23/2015) [-]

Most make a lot of sense, and are easy to remember.

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#11 - traceirving (11/23/2015) [-]

Your favourite anime is 'stinktier'

#17 - gadgetzan (11/23/2015) [-]

I've been thinking about doing something like this for Swedish, we have many funny words too. In Swedish, sloth is "sengångare" which means late-walker. Some others are:
English - Swedish - Literal translation
Glasses - Glasögon - Glass-eyes
Uterus - Livmoder - Life-mother
Execute - Avrätta - De-right
Strawberry - Jordgubbe - Earth-man
Dentist - Tandläkare - Tooth-healer
Whiskers - Morrhår - Growl-hairs
And the weirdest one I came up with:
Pillowcase - Örngott - Eagle-good (wtf?)

#44 to #17 - theoldfritz (11/23/2015) [-]

The same in some slavish languages
Naocale - on eyes - Glasses
Maternica - mother insides - uterus
pogubiti (execute like killing) - kill over - execute
zubar - toother - dentist

many words are bastardisations of two regular ones, mainly becouse of the panslavish movements like the illirian on greatmoravian one which tended to preserve the language anr replaced most of the foreign names with their new ones

#26 to #17 - probrem (11/23/2015) [-]

Örn är öron på gammelsvenska. Har inget med fågeln att göra.

#28 to #26 - gadgetzan (11/23/2015) [-]

Där ser man, det visste jag inte. Låter ganska mycket mer logiskt

#14 - lordsaucy (11/23/2015) [-]

Where have I heard fledermaus before? I feel like it's something I used to hear referred to on YouTube a lot. It was like tops fledermaus or something like that. Maybe I heard the yogscast talking about it?

**** , that's gonna bug me now.

#15 to #14 - shaddyz [OP]ONLINE (11/23/2015) [-]

fledermaus is a piece from mozart

#16 to #15 - lordsaucy (11/23/2015) [-]

That might be what I'm thinking about but I feel like it was referring to a person or group when I was hearing it a lot. I'd hear something along the lines of 'tops fledermaus did this'.
Maybe it was a youtube channel.

#23 to #14 - schaufelradbagger (11/23/2015) [-]

Taofledermaus? The guy with the crazy weapons and ammo?

#22 to #14 - skidbladnir (11/23/2015) [-]

There's a guy on youtube called taofledermaus.
I don't know his channel but sometimes heard of him.

Also, i'm from austria, so i can tell you that the tao part of his name doesn't mean anything in german.

#49 to #22 - lordsaucy (11/24/2015) [-]

THANK YOU! That was bugging the hell out of me.

#2 - basalm (11/22/2015) [-]

#3 to #2 - basalm (11/22/2015) [-]

I'm sorry it's a YouTube video, I just didn't have the time to make it a webm.

#4 to #3 - solidderking (11/22/2015) [-]

i prefer youtube videos

#10 - FunnyJunkTerrorist (11/23/2015) [-]

i was looking for jew listed in there

#12 to #10 - melwach (11/23/2015) [-]

You and me both know that jews shouldn't (even) be considered animals.

#43 to #12 - epicawe ONLINE (11/23/2015) [-]

Yet they concider non-jews animals.

#42 to #10 - theoldfritz (11/23/2015) [-]

Is is a human
yea, kinda i guess?
where is it?
what do you mean, w what?
Up, or down, under, above....?
.....it has a big nose
Its called under man, untermensch (subhuman)