Side note: I thought the Greek grammatical case aorist was pronounced “ow-rist” for a long time, like the ao of Japanese. It’s actually ay-o-rist. But that makes sense since ao as “ow” is sort of an Oriental convention…
Döner (German, short for Döner kebab the German Turkish sandwich that I often wish were as popular here as well)
I think there is a Latin word Neroneus, which I assume means “like Nero”, ie. crazy and tyrannical.
However, the only article I could find was on the French Wiktionary: https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Neroneus
(I can’t speak French.)
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Scrap it then, I’ll have neu (mole on skin) – Sardinian
Which is what the article says: Néronien, i. e. Neronian, of or about Nero.
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Mmmm. I’ll still have neu though.
Neu is the Italian neo with the standard Sardinian replacement of final u for final o
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But well found!
Especially because it ends in - eu which gives me a chance to suggest:
eudaimonia (happiness, Greek)
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Eudaemonia, thou art a good daemon…
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yama, 山 (mountain) – Japanese
manzana - apple, Spanish
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anabasis (a military march inland) – Ancient Greek
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You are better at challenging yourself:)
Partly because I don’t know as much in different languages.
If I post any word that’s not from English, Latin, or Ancient Greek then a lot of the time I got it from Wiktionary.
You at least know three languages, and how to spell them. I knew manzana, but not how to spell it, so I looked on google translate. Same letters as english, so it must be more accurate.
I don’t know them, I just know some of their words. For instance, Anabasis is the title of a famous work of classical history, about Greek mercenaries in Persia.
Island English
’Ndrangheta - the Neapolitan mafia.
@bugcat in German, it actually is the ow-rist, or ah-oh-rist. But then again, we can actually pronounce open syllables with a and o without producing a diphthong. The word means undefined, because it means the action of the verb per se, not marked by linearity or resultativity. Truth is, it is defined, it’s the third Aktionsart, which is punctuality.
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The mystery of what is Sanonius’ first language continues 
Is it English? German? Rumansch?
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