linguoboy wrote:I appreciate that you've added glosses, but it's confusing because in many case parentheses were already being used for other purposes (viz. aspirador (de pó)).
But only that one (de pó). Parenthesis were already being used for glosses (cf. Italian, Bulgarian, Croatian, Serbian, Russian, Hebrew, Turkish). Other glosses were listed at the end of a language family, but doing it that way meant that the gloss was incorrect for some (actually, most) of the Romance languages.
I added italics to the glosses and changed the Portuguese
de pó to brackets to make it more clear.
Afrikaans: stofsuier
(dust sucker)Danish: støvsuger
(dust sucker)Dutch: stofzuiger
(dust sucker)English: vacuum cleaner, hoover
Faroese: dustsúgvari
(dust sucker)Frisian: stofsûger
(dust sucker)German: Staubsauger
(dust sucker)Icelandic: ryksuga
(dust sucker)Luxembourgish: Staubsauger
(dust sucker)Norwegian: støvsuger
(dust sucker)Swedish: dammsugare
(dust sucker)Irish: folúsghlantóir
(related to folúis = vacuum)Scots-Gaelic: sguabadair
(sweeper)Welsh: sugnwr llwch
Catalan: aspirador/aspiradora
(inhaler)French: aspirateur
(sucker)Italian: aspirapolvere
(dust sucker)Portuguese: aspirador [de pó]
(inhaler [of dust])Spanish: aspiradora
(inhaler)Romanian: aspirator
(inhaler)Bulgarian: прахосмукачка
(dust sucker)Croatian: usisivač
(in-sucker)Czech: vysavač
Polish: odkurzacz
Russian: пылесос
(dust sucker)Serbian: усисивач [usisivač]
(in-sucker)Slovak: vysávač
Greek: ηλεκτρική σκούπα [ilektriki skupa]
(electric broom)Latvian: putekļsūcējs
(dust cleaner)Estonian: tolmuimeja
(dust sucker)Estonian [Kihnu dialect]: tolmoimejä
(dust sucker)Finnish: imuri
(sucker), pölynimuri
(dust sucker)Hungarian: porszívó
(dust sucker)Inari Saami: kovjânjammee
(dust sucker), lyeninjammee
(trash sucker)Livonian: põrmimmiji
(dust sucker)Lule Saami: dubmerubán
(dust sucker)North Saami: gavjanjammi
(dust sucker), noavki
(unknown origin)Votic: pöllüimejä
(dust sucker)Võro: pudsunudsija
(fleck sucker) (pudsu = fleck, speck, dust bunny)Hebrew: שואב אבק [sho'ev avak]
(dust sucker)Turkish: elektrik süpürgesi, elektrikli süpürge
(süpürge = broom)Hmong Daw: tshuab nqus tsev
(house-sucking machine)Hmong Njua: tshuab nqug tsev
(house-sucking machine)Iu Mienh: sorqv la'fapv ji
(dust-sucking machine)Lao: ຈັກດູດຝຸ່ນ [tɕak duːt fun]
(dust-sucking machine)Thai: เครื่องดูดฝุ่น [kʰrɯa̯ŋ duːt fun]
(dust-sucking machine)Japanese: (真空)掃除機
([shinku]sōjiki = vacuum cleaning machine), バキュームクリーナー
(bakyuumu kurīnā [from English])Korean: 진공청소기 (眞空淸掃器) [jin'gongcheongsogi]
(vacuum cleaner), 청소기 (淸掃機) [cheongsogi]
(cleaner)Chinese: 吸尘器 / 吸塵器 / (Mandarin) xīchénqì
(absorb + dust + utensil); 吸塵機 / 吸尘机 / (Mandarin) xīchénjī / (Cantonese) kāpchàhngēi
(absorb + dust + machine)Inuktitut: pujurinniijauti
(pujurinniq = light dust, such as what covers furniture)Canis: vacuratora
Esperanto: polvosuĉilo
Interlingua: aspirator
Lingua Franca Nova: arabasador