The world's languages can be grouped into those which call oranges oranges, those which call oranges apples and those which call oranges Portugals.
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If you need another funny unneeded linguistic fact, I've just learned that Polish "słoń", an elephant, comes from Turkish "aslan", a lion. They're both big animals from Africa which Slavic people have never seen. Oh, and Polish "wielbłąd", a camel, comes from "olifant"/elephant.
Well, I just learned that C.S. Lewis was slightly less imaginative but slightly more polyglot than I realised! But wielbłąd isn't exactly close to olifant...
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https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/wielb%C5%82%C4%85d#Polish … "From Proto-Slavic *velьb(l)ǫdъ, vъlьb(l)ǫdъ, from Gothic 𐌿𐌻𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (ulbandus), from Latin elephantus, from Ancient Greek ἐλέφας (eléphas). Humorous meaning from reanalysis as wielki (“large, giant”) + błąd (“error, mistake”). "
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I trust the analysis... but I'm still not seeing it! :D
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