Jens
I love coming from a place with a teeny tiny language (not just amount of speakers, but also vocabulary.
We have become experts at stealing words from other languages. Not just the big obvious ones (French, German, English or Russian) but also from Romani and Yiddish.
Or thieves cants and similar.
Like one of our cultural institutions. To "fika" - to have coffee and cake with someone and chat. The word is from a cant where they mixed syllables. "Fi-Ka" = "Ka-Fi" from the Månsing language
Jens
From Romani we have for example "to snitch" ("gola") to sell ("beckna" - now mostly used in reference to young drug dealers) but also things like "the country" ("vischan", from the Romani word for forest) and poetic stuff like the word "mucka" (to be freed from something often either Prison or military service).
That word is specific since it comes the sanskrit term Moksha which means "liberation" or "liberation from reincarnation"
Jens
The månsing language was used by travelling salesmen: Knallar. A group who circumvented laws for sales during the 16th century based on their origin and then became a group based around selling stuff on local temporary markets.
From that created language we have expressions and words (often seen as slang) for for example "to steal" ("sno") to get angry at someone ("lacka")
A fascinating detail is that like with Romani, words where often of non-appropriate things. Theft, body parts etc
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