Canoe

[MrKrov]

In my search for a romanized transliteraton of סירת קנו (which is supposed to be canoe) for a video of wacky linguistic quackery, I thought maybe I'll get results here and make a translation challenge out of it. As an aside, I'm vaguely disappointed there's no flag that's corresponds to "languages of the Pacific".

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (?) (transliteration?)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

[Yačay256]

In my search for a romanized transliteraton of סירת קנו (which is supposed to be canoe) for a video of wacky linguistic quackery, I thought maybe I'll get results here and make a translation challenge out of it. As an aside, I'm vaguely disappointed there's no flag that's corresponds to "languages of the Pacific".

canoe

סירת קנו (?) (transliteration?)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka
Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

[Maximillian]

:heb: סירת קנו (?) (transliteration?)

/si'rat ka'no/ sirat qano

[MrKrov]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

/si'rat ka'no/ sirat qano

Would you say canoe's an accurate translation of that? Since it looks like there's two words there, would I actually need both and if not would qano be the noun?

[Maximillian]

Would you say canoe's an accurate translation of that? Since it looks like there's two words there, would I actually need both and if not would qano be the noun?

סירת קנו literary means "canoe boat", but I have never seen קנו used on its own, probably because it would not be comprehensible that way. However, it is not a frequent word in Hebrew, so I can't really know. Maybe in some specific context קנו is used as a stand-alone word.

[LetoAtreides]

In polish it is kanu (pronounced /ka'nu/).

[Arzemju]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

[MrKrov]

Would you say canoe's an accurate translation of that? Since it looks like there's two words there, would I actually need both and if not would qano be the noun?

סירת קנו literary means "canoe boat", but I have never seen קנו used on its own, probably because it would not be comprehensible that way. However, it is not a frequent word in Hebrew, so I can't really know. Maybe in some specific context קנו is used as a stand-alone word.

'K. Thank you for your input.

[Hakaku]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë

カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

[Yačay256]

canoe

סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
Canot, Canoë

カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc
Quechua: Wanpu (for boat... don't know if there is a term for "Canoe")
Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

[Arzemju]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë
:ron: Canoe, Pirogă* (*might not be a canoe, but it's a boat)
Galician: Canoa


Κανό (kano)
カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
Image ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc

Kano
Azerbaijani: Kanoe

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3

[sangi39]

Was going to follow the normal translation thread format (copy+paste-esque) but my conlangs don't actually have a word for "canoe" yet. I mean, I know that the source word will be "kanoa" for the sake of ease but it depends on when the word enters the language. For example, if the word turns up after all of the languages divided it would likely be either <kanu> or <kanua> (/kanu/ or /kanua/) in each language since they all generally allow this word phonemically. However, if the word was adopted before the north-south split then the words appear as:

Standard Southern and Eastern Southern: <kanua> (both /kanua/)
Western and Northern Southern: <kanoo> (the first having /kɛa:nɔu:/ and the second having /ka:nou:/)
"N"-Southern (so named due to its historical nasal vowels): <kanua> (/kanua/)
Standard Northern: <kanuo> (/kanuo/)
Border Northern (so named because it has a number of features found in southern languages): <kanıı> (/kanɯ:/)
"Green" Northern (a distant northern language named after it being slightly more southern): <kaanoa> (/ka:noa/)
"White" Northern (a distant northern language named after it being slightly more northern): <keanoa> (/keanoa/)

If the word was originally borrowed as /kanu/ before the north-south split then the words would be different again:

Standard, Eastern, Western and Northern Southern: <kanu> (first two have /kanu/, the third has /kɛa:nu:/ and the fourth has /ka:nʏ:/)
"N"-Southern: Likewise has <kanu> (/kanua/)
Standard Northern: <kanu> (/kano/)
Border Northern (so named because it has a number of features found in southern languages): <kana> (/kana/)
"Green" Northern (a distant northern language named after it being slightly more southern): <koonuu> (/ko:nu:/)
"White" Northern (a distant northern language named after it being slightly more northern): <keanu> (/keanu/)

So I've got potential words in each of the languages but it depends on exactly when they were borrowed as to what their modern forms would be.

[Aevas]

Fun fact: in Swedish it's kanot /ka"nu:t/ with a pronounced /t/ due to false pronunciation of the French canot /kano/.

Also Yačay256 please read the forum sticky.

[Itsuki Kohaku]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë
:ron: Canoe, Pirogă* (*might not be a canoe, but it's a boat)
Galician: Canoa


Κανό (kano)
カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
Image ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc

Kano
Azerbaijani: Kanoe

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3
Makurungou: Kunü (Direct borrowing from English.)

[Utlandr]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë

カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc
Quechua: Wanpu

Kano
Azerbaijani: Kanoe

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3
Wistra Gutisk: kajak/ kainu ["kA.jak/ kE."nu]

[Colzie]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë

カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc
Quechua: Wanpu

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3
Rudan: Kanonuvek

[Utlandr]

Colzie, I can understand the mistake I made with Quechua, for that my apologies, but you took out the translation for my conlang all together. Seriously? :-(

EDIT: I see now that you didn't even give a translation for the word. So amend my PM accordingly.

[MrKrov]

About as serious as you taking out Makurungou.

[Utlandr]

About as serious as you taking out Makurungou.

That's strange because it was there when I previewed before submitting. Perhaps there's a bug. I'll keep a closer eye after submitting from now on.

As for Makurungou, I shall fix that and add Rudan (which I like a lot :-D ).

[Utlandr]

canoe

:heb: סירת קנו (sirat qano)

Hawaiian: waʻa
waka
Rapanui: vaka
Rarotongan: vaka
Samoan: vaʻa
Tongan: vaka

Canoe /kanoe/
:qbc: Canot, Canoë

カヌー /kanuu/

Khasi: /lieŋ/
ទូក /tuuk/
Pacoh: /tuək/
Palaung: /tjaw/
Souei: /tṳaʔ/
nốc
Quechua: Wanpu

Kano
Azerbaijani: Kanoe

Sa'u'o: Ja3furo3
Makurungou: Kunü (Direct borrowing from English.)
Rudan: Kanonuvek
Wistra Gutisk: kajak/ kainu