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In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavic languages) the word for "jump" is "hopp". I've never realized before how intuitive I've always felt it to be. It'
by kristofferR 5y ago
In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavic languages) the word for "jump" is "hopp".
I've never realized before how intuitive I've always felt it to be.
It's like an animal sound verb (mooing etc.), just for a human activity.
- doytch 5y agoCzech has a version of "jump" that's similar as well, so I wonder if Slavic languages also do. Czech is odd in that some roots are Slavic and others German so who knows where it came from!
- Symbiote 5y agoThe English cognate is to hop, to jump on one leg or make a small jump.
- Terretta 5y agoallez-oop is what French circus acrobats would say before a jump, parents now say before helping a kid up: allez means go, and oop is this sound too. In English both hop and up.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> In Norwegian (and probably other Scandinavic languages) the word for "jump" is "hopp". Also true in English.