Hey peoples,  we should start something where we share a translation of the word sling from any language that we may know of that has the word sling

You mean, translate the word "sling"? Did I understand right?
If so, in Italian it is "frombola"  :)
Greetings,
Mauro.

Yes sir thats exactly what I mean ;)

:D wonderful!
So it is "frombola" in Italian, "fromboliere" for slinger, changing the last -e with an -i if it is plural.
Lead glan is "ghianda missile", and clay or stone ones is just "proiettili".
I think it's all here!   ;)
Greetings,
Mauro.

There is a thread somewhere on here that list a bunch of words for sling in different languages.

In Russian, it's "праща", pronounced prash-CHA, i.e., with the stress on the terminal syllable.  

In Mandarin, if my rudimentary Chinese skills suffice, it's "投石器", pronounced toe-shir-chee, which literally means "stone throwing implement".  

ilovepancakes wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 8:22am:

There is a thread somewhere on here that list a bunch of words for sling in different languages.

There is a collection of these in the wiki:

http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sling_in_Different_Languages

wanderer wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 10:13am:

http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sling_in_Different_Languages

In this link, it has the Mandarin 弹弓 (pronounced dan-gong) for sling; this translates literally as "stone bow" or "pellet bow".  I suppose this term to be more or less synonymous with the "投石器" ("stone throwing implement") I came up with...  

Proto-Celtic is *trokwalos. :P

Redbeard wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 10:38am:

wanderer wrote on Dec 8th, 2010 at 10:13am: http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sling_in_Different_Languages In this link, it has the Mandarin 弹弓 (pronounced dan-gong) for sling; this translates literally as "stone bow" or "pellet bow".  I suppose this term to be more or less synonymous with the "投石器" ("stone throwing implement") I came up with...

One of our members living between China and Tibet said that the current Chinese slang for the sling was "stone whip" and that the Tibetans called it something a little different. I don't know if he was referring to Cantonese, Mandarin, or another language.

Redbeard wrote on Dec 8^th, 2010 at 10:38am:

wanderer wrote on Dec 8th, 2010 at 10:13am: http://www.slinging.org/wiki/index.php?title=Sling_in_Different_Languages In this link, it has the Mandarin 弹弓 (pronounced dan-gong) for sling; this translates literally as "stone bow" or "pellet bow".  I suppose this term to be more or less synonymous with the "投石器" ("stone throwing implement") I came up with...

maybe 扔 would be better, since to me it sounds better than tuo..or maybe because i'm such a fail at chinese i had had to get google translator out to read it lol.