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Gard Senior Member Offline Yup, there are slingers in Norway too! Posts: 396 Norway Gender:	"Sling" in different languages? Oct 20^th, 2005 at 5:25pm What is the word "sling" in different languages? I begin with Norwegian: Slynge Gard
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Joseph Curwen Junior Member Offline Wild sling, you make my heart sing... Posts: 77 France Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #1 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 5:53pm In french: fronde Joseph
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Re: "Sling" in different languages?
Reply #2 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 6:00pm

LOL, I have heard it called "Un lancer" in french! As far as I can tell, then, both may be right.
In Dutch: slinger, or slingeren
German" Schleuder
Italian: lanciare (this is probably why it is also called "lancer" in French. Probably a shared derived root word farther back)
Portugese: arremesso de funda
Swedish: Slunga

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Reply #3 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 6:32pm

From the dusty deeps of the archives ...

The topic is

Another name for a sling

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So, a whole list would be:
Proca
Honda
Schleuder
Sling
Slingshot
Prak
Waraq'a
Fronde
Fionda
Funda
Slangshot (whatever JeffH says...) Grin

Slunga
Ka-ala
Imdugud (slingstone)
I can actually speak a lot of these languages quite well. I have two, maybe three passions and talents; languages, history, and weaponry. They all tie in somehow. I was actually learning a bit of Quechua recently, the language of the Inca (Runasimi, the quechua word for quechua, means "mouth of the people"). I am predicted and A* in German for my final exams, and in French. In fact, I am very near the top in these in the country. Still nice to learn a little more of a language, especially in relation to slinging. The language I am currently attempting to learn is Mohawk, language of, you guessed it, the Mohawk native Americans. Very, very difficult (even compared to quechua, with all it's glottals, and plosive consonants.) I will try to find the work for sling, but my dictionary is from 1847, with a rather limited number of words. However, due to the nature of the language, I can make it up. I will post it soon.

Extra credit if you know which language each name comes from... Grin

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Hellfire Ex Member	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #4 - Oct 20^th, 2005 at 6:55pm Very neat. How did you come up with all those sling names?
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Joseph Curwen Junior Member Offline Wild sling, you make my heart sing... Posts: 77 France Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #5 - Oct 21^st, 2005 at 12:10am Mammothunter, I think that what you've heard, "Un lancer" must be "un lanceur" from the verb "lancer" that means to cast. "un lanceur" or "un propulseur", are the names given in french for an atlatl. Regards Joseph
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Re: "Sling" in different languages?
Reply #6 - Oct 21^st, 2005 at 1:32am

Hellfire,
The topic I linked to ("Another name for a sling") is an earlier discussion of what a sling is called in various languages. English's post (which I quoted) was just the summary of the names people posted in that topic. Since Gard started a similar discussion, and I remembered the earlier discussion, I decided to bring in all the names found in that earlier discussion.

Of course, we've got more people from more places now, so we should be able to add to the list.

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sv Funditor Offline Posts: 764 ireland	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #7 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 12:38pm in esperanto "stono" = stone, "jeti" = to throw, and -il is the suffix for tool or implement. -o is the noun ending. so i don't have to look up the word for sling, it's "stonjetilo" sv
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Re: "Sling" in different languages?
Reply #8 - Oct 22^nd, 2005 at 10:22pm

Fore Dale's extra credit Wink

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Se llama una honda en espanol. (It's called a "honda" in Spanish.)

Und es heisst eine Schleuder auf Deutsch. (And it's called a "Schleuder" in German.)

In Greek, it's called a "sphendone". (The second 'e' is long; the other vowels are short.)

I also seem to remember it being a "fonda" in Catalan, though I don't know any Catalan besides what sounds similar to Spanish.

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Curious Aardvark Forum Moderation Offline Taller than the average Dwarf Posts: 13965 Midlands England Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #9 - Oct 24^th, 2005 at 7:24am in derbyshire dialect it's [i]'a sling mi duck' [/i]:-)
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sv Funditor Offline Posts: 764 ireland	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #10 - Oct 24^th, 2005 at 7:47am the zulus called their short spears "iklwas" from the sound the blade made when stabbing an enemy. maybe they call the sling the "oodaphukfroodat" sv
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A.Paarma Guest	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #11 - Oct 25^th, 2005 at 5:58am In finnish : Linko
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Kaulepuaa Novicius Offline I love Slinging.org! Posts: 2 Waianae, Hawaii (USA) Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #12 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 2:02am Hawaiian :: Ma'a note: Ma'a is also the verb 'to study or practice'
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bigkahuna past-moderator Offline Posts: 3894 Delaware, USA Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #13 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 3:54am Hey Kaulepuaa! E komo Mi! Welcome to the world of slinging.
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Altay Senior Member Offline Romans 8 Posts: 447 Gibsonia, PA (USA) Gender:	Re: "Sling" in different languages? Reply #14 - Feb 19^th, 2006 at 4:04am The Turkish word for sling is "sapan" However, that's also the word for a slingshot (the Y shaped boring weapons)
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