Last word in a foreign language that you learnt

[Mutusen]

borner v - limit, confine
dîme f - tithe
échancrer v - scallop, cut into the shape of a crescent
empiéter (sur qqch) v - encroach (on sth)
enchevêtrer v - tangle up
lof m - the windward side of a ship (don't know if there's an English word for this)
louvoyer v - (nautical) tack; (figurative) zigzag, maneuver
mense f - income of an abbey or bishopric
recouvrer v - recover, get sth back

That's some advanced vocabulary. I didn't even know lof and mense.

My last words were:

prieberčivý - choosy, picky
обезво́живание - dehydration

[Dormouse559]

That's some advanced vocabulary. I didn't even know lof and mense.

I've gotten into the weeds of the Holy Roman Empire, of all things, and how it related to the medieval archbishop-counts of Tarentaise. You know, nothing too specific. So I'm learning all about French's feudal/religious jargon.

[IpseDixit]

(en) to immure - to enclose within walls

[Luís]

fausse couche miscarriage
mettre en cloque to knock sb up

[linguoboy]

lavallière pussy bow; ascot

[linguoboy]

cobaye guinea pig [also fig.]
pantois gobsmacked
tarabouster to bother

[linguoboy]

plakativ striking, slogan-like; unsubtle, reductive
fluithaas pika [a rodent of the Ochotona genus]

[linguoboy]

醒 xǐng awaken(ed)
降る furu fall [from the sky], precipitate
수세미 swuseymi loofah

[linguoboy]

ときめく to be moved emotionally
omaðį life [lit. "walking about"]

[Vlürch]

neorxnawang - paradise, heaven
Got this from clicking "random entry" on Wiktionary a couple of days ago, and it immediately stuck for some reason.

[linguoboy]

Kanza: hába corn [on the cob]
Pawnee: kiwaku fox
Pawnee: pasasi Osage

[Ser]

neorxnawang - paradise, heaven
Got this from clicking "random entry" on Wiktionary a couple of days ago, and it immediately stuck for some reason.

And now I love that word.

Looking at other languages' word for "paradise", it seems that somehow the Old Persian > Greek word "paradise" spread a lot via Christianity, but the Greek words for "hell" didn't. East Slavic and South Slavic do have ад (from ᾍδης, "Hades"), but otherwise neither that nor γέεννα spread.

[linguoboy]

まかせる makaseru entrust; leave [something] up to someone else
우엉 wueng burdock

[Vlürch]

And now I love that word.

Yeah, it's pretty nice.

Looking at other languages' word for "paradise", it seems that somehow the Old Persian > Greek word "paradise" spread a lot via Christianity, but the Greek words for "hell" didn't.

I guess because the Christian concept of hell "absorbed" the mythological underworlds of various cultures (similarly to how various mythological creatures came to be seen as demons), so the words for them were extended to include the Christian concept and eventually lost the original connotations as the people became more Christianised. I think that began to happen in Finnish with manala, but then the Swedish loanword helvetti became more common and nowadays that's practically the only word used for hell in the Christian sense while the former remains in discussion of pre-Christian mythology (and poetry, etc. but that's a different matter entirely).

East Slavic and South Slavic do have ад (from ᾍδης, "Hades"), but otherwise neither that nor γέεννα spread.

Well, a bunch of languages have borrowed the Arabic جهنم (jahannam) along with the word for heaven, جنة (jannat). But that's not from Greek, so even though both the Arabic and Greek words for hell originally came from Hebrew, it doesn't really count anyway.

[Prowler]

Drücken - printing/to print

Had no idea it also meant that...

[Yasna]

Drücken - printing/to print

Had no idea it also meant that...

Drucken*

[Prowler]

Drücken - printing/to print

Had no idea it also meant that...

Drucken*

Oh thanks. Big small difference indeed.

die Aufnahme - the recording

...and also has other meanings:
Admission
Absorption
Intake
Accomodation
Shot(camera?
Uptake

[linguoboy]

deppa mope
fattigdom poverty

[linguoboy]

bleusaille new recruit
échotier journalist who spreads rumours [< écho]
roublard wily

[Prowler]

das Abwässer - Waste water