Well micro blogging is not all wasted time, not all shouting into the internet void.
I have been hanging out on Mastodon (see here, and here, and here) - and someone asked how to say slime in French. It was because one of the Mastodon intanse was called slime, and the person wanted to say something like: Long love the Slime in French.
So I asked and some of the many French speaking people on the federation could teel me that there is no noun for slime in French. Here are some of the alternatives:
- Bave - is drool, slime from the mouth
- Gelée - is jelly - used in D&D for green slime: Gelée verte
- Vase - can mean a vase - but also clay or silt of which a vase is made.
- Morve - snot
But even though there is no general noun for slime, there is an adjective for slimy: gluant.
So you can also say substance gluante: slimy substance.
Slime seems to be a Germanic extrapolation of the latin: limus (clay) and exist in German and also in my native tongue, Danish. It was first used in English in 1628. (Merriam-Webster info)
You may also use "glue" in french. It has the same connotation, though not the perfect exact meaning of "slime".
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Thank you! One more for the collection.
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Great post. It's always interesting to learn the origin of words, especially in strange languages like French.
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Actually 50% of English is French and a large portion of the remaining is from my Nordic family of language. Egg for example derives from our æg, which is pronounced the same way (in German it is eier and in French it is œufs which are obviously different)
So I guess that French is not that strange ;)
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substance visqueuse is another one
http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/visqueux
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