• Lehmuusa@nord.pub
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    8 days ago

    The Russian and Ukrainian ones aren’t correct. They say “90” as something along the lines of “nine but hundred”.

    The tens are:

    Ten

    Two ten

    Three ten

    Sorok

    Five ten

    Six ten

    Seven ten

    Eight ten

    Nine but hundred

    (Plus, these all have contractions, but it’s easy to hear where the words stem from)

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        8 days ago

        Sorok is 40 sable furs tied together for easier countiing while trading, it is soooo obvious!

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          6 days ago

          And of course, to go further into nothing making any sense:

          The Finnish language took the Russian word for sable, sóbol, and made a word of its own based off that: sopuli. But sopuli doesn’t mean sable. It means lemming. Somebody got confused. Later they heard about sable and named it soopeli in Finnish.