Longest Word In Your Language!

[Kosta]

So I was just talking with some people over MSN and I found out that the longest Icelandic word is FIFTY letters long!!!

Word:
Hellishei?arvegavinnuverkamannaverkf?rageymsluskúr
Meaning:
Its a small house in which a worker can store his tools while working on a road

The longest croatian is only 22 letters to my knowledge :not_ok:
Word:
Prijestolonaslijednica
Meaning:
The woman which will inherit the throne after the king/queen dies

So, let's hear what you've got! ;)

[Kon-Tiki]

Rechterachterwielventieldopfabrieksdirecteursloons trookje
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Rightbehindwheelthingamajingylidfactorydirector'sp aybill.

[Eagle of Fire]

French: Anticonstitutionellement.

Don't ask the meaning... I'm too lazy to check and translate it... :rolleyes:

[Stroggy]

hottentottententententoonstelling is the longest one I know
now only is it long, its also very difficult to pronounce without leaving out some letters while pronouncing it.
It means: exposition about the tents of the Hottentots

[Maikel]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 12:30 AM
Rechterachterwielventieldopfabrieksdirecteursloons trookje
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Rightbehindwheelthingamajingylidfactorydirector'sp aybill.
You are so dutch / belgian it's scary ;)

kredietverzekeringsmaatschappijen
onderwijsontwikkelingsactiviteiten
projectontwikkelingsmaatschappijen
pensioenverzekeringsovereenkomsten
elektriciteitsproductiemaatschappij
arbeidsongeschiktheidsvoorzieningen
arbeidsongeschiktheidsverzekeringen
elektriciteitsproductiemaatschappijen
ontwikkelingssamenwerkingsorganisaties

hottentottententententoonstellingsmakersopleidings programma

[wormpaul]

Lache...

Rechterachterwielventieldopfabrieksdirecteursloons trookje

Nice dutch word :twisted:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I read on the back of a lollie packet that a german person has a last name that is about 500 letters long.
Also chemicals have long names, theres one with 150 letters or something you can find the longest in the guiness book of records.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Kosta@Oct 13 2004, 12:24 AM
Word:
Hellishei?arvegavinnuverkamannaverkf?rageymsluskúr
Meaning:
Its a small house in which a worker can store his tools while working on a road


We call that a tool shed here in aussie land. :D

[Tom Henrik]

THIS IS ALL :ot:



The topic is about the longest WORLD in your language....
In Norwegian that would be Jorden / Verden, both meaning the world :bleh:

[Puffin]

Originally posted by Iron_Scarecrow@Oct 13 2004, 08:14 AM
We call that a tool shed here in aussie land. :D
Well, this tool shed is located on this certain place (Hellishei?i).
We also have another simple word for a tool shed: Verkf?rageymsla / Verkf?rageymsluskúr.

Hellishei?arvegavinnuverkamannaverkf?rageymsluskúr is less common.
I wonder why... :huh:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Ahahahahahaha. Think I'll stick with tool shed.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Well I did a google search and found that the longest word listed in Oxford dictionaries is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

It's meant to be some kind of lung disease, but theres something else about it.

Most of the words which are given as 'the longest word' are merely inventions, and when they occur it is almost always as examples of long words, rather than as genuine examples of use.

This word apparenty is one of them.

Longest in the English Oxford Dictionary is:

pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)

[Stroggy]

I win the dutch one:

the official longest word is:
KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN

followed by:
ZANDZEEPSODEMINERAALWATERSTEENSTRALEN
and
WAPENSTILSTANDSONDERHANDELINGEN (which actually means 'ceasefire negotiations')

[aaberg]

The longest danish word, that has officialy been used is:

speciall?gepraksisplanl?gningsstabilliseringsperio de (51 characters) :blink:

It's tough to translate, I don't think that word exists in many languages! It means something like: "A period where a special doctor who practises are planing, erhh... something!!?" Well.. it is not easy to translate! :huh: :lol:

Directly translated it is:
"Special doctor pracsis planing stabalising period" ??, whatever that means exacly? <_<

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Oct 13 2004, 11:39 AM
I win the dutch one:

the official longest word is:
KINDERCARNAVALSOPTOCHTVOORBEREIDINGSWERKZAAMHEDEN


Damm...again learned something today :)

[Havell]

The longest proper word in English is:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It is a lung condition that is contracted by breathing in particles of fine quartz dust, often caught by quatz miners.

Some people say that the longest word in the english language is the name of a kind of bacteria but it is not a real word as it is just a list of all the proteins that go together to make it.

[TheVoid]

The longest Italian world should be of 27 letter:
PARTICOLAREGGIATISSIMAMENTE
which means, basiclally, very, VERY particularly.

Or else
PRECIPITEVOLISSIMEVOLMENTE
which means "rushing very,very,very fast"

[Kon-Tiki]

Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:

Mouwvegerspraktijkkuisvrouwenonderneming might be pretty long too.

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 03:32 PM
Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:


Yes...so for i already count 6 or 7 of those "KaasKoppen" :Titan: :Titan:

[Kon-Tiki]

Hrmm... I'm no kaaskop. :cheers:

[gregor]

kosta, these people just stick their words together. it's not a fair competition against the slavic lanaguges which try to be simple. are you sure Crotatian language has only that word? i was under impression that it's a much richer langauge.
anyway here is mine (u need CE fonts to read)

dialéktičnomaterialístičnost

dialectic materialism "thingy".... whatever that is
so 28 letters.

and here are some more:

buržoaznonacionalističen
starocerkvenoslovanščina
vsezaverodomcesarjevstvo

however if we count the words used in sentences:
družbenokonstrukcionističnega

more found here:
http://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Najdalj%C5%A1a_slovenska_beseda

[Red Diablo]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 03:32 PM
Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:
*looks around board to find Ruud van Nistelrooy*

*doesn't*

*cries* :cry:

[wormpaul]

Originally posted by Red Diablo+Oct 13 2004, 06:26 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Red Diablo @ Oct 13 2004, 06:26 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> ******QuoteBegin-Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 03:32 PM
Woah, alot of Dutch people here :blink:
*looks around board to find Ruud van Nistelrooy*

*doesn't*

*cries* :cry: [/b][/quote]
Maybe under a another name...

Keep looking and maybe you`ll find him (or maybe not) :cheers:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

I found that the name of a DNA string has 1909 letters in it. But it is not considered an item of english vocabulary.

[Unknown Hero]

What about:
Semperiveličnaverisalelipitipikovski! My teacher of Croatian told me that this is the longest surname in Russia (don't believe their lies!).
And artimagnificentissimamente is the longest word in italian (I don't believe this neither!).

BTW Kosta have you noticed that your thread is called "Longest WORLD In Your Language!" :whip: :rifle: :rifle: :sniper:

[Tom Henrik]

Originally posted by Tom Henrik@Oct 13 2004, 08:51 AM
THIS IS ALL :ot:



The topic is about the longest WORLD in your language....
In Norwegian that would be Jorden / Verden, both meaning the world :bleh:
Old news ;)

[Kon-Tiki]

Originally posted by Red Diablo@Oct 13 2004, 06:26 PM
*looks around board to find Ruud van Nistelrooy*

*doesn't*

*cries* :cry:
Wie de teelt is Ruud van Niemenrooy... errr... Nistelrooy? :ph34r:

[Red Diablo]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki+Oct 15 2004, 01:23 PM****</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Kon-Tiki @ Oct 15 2004, 01:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>******QuoteBegin-Red Diablo@Oct 13 2004, 06:26 PM
*looks around board to find Ruud van Nistelrooy*

*doesn't*

*cries** :cry:
Wie de teelt is Ruud van Niemenrooy... errr... Nistelrooy? :ph34r:[/b][/quote]
Huh? Say what? :blink:

Think you meant to say:

"Ruud van Nistelrooy is the best striker ever"

No worries, english is a bit tough sometimes. I'll help you out ! :ok: :bleh:

But this is waaaay :ot:

[Kon-Tiki]

Nah, what I said, is "Who the fuck is <insertnamehereasIdon'twanttotypeitagain>?"

[Stroggy]

Originally posted by Kon-Tiki@Oct 13 2004, 04:04 PM
Hrmm... I'm no kaaskop. :cheers:
I'm Belgian... or so it says on my ID
I've often been accused (yes, accused) by europeans of being an American.

[FreeFreddy]

Well, all this words I saw so far are just single words tied together to be longer then they're for real. :sneaky:
But this one is a real name, and it's long enough, I think: Ashshurnacirapal. It's a name of an Babylonian king from the time before the birth of Christi. ;)

[Stroggy]

Originally posted by FreeFreddy@Oct 15 2004, 01:56 PM
Well, all this words I saw so far are just single words tied together to be longer then they're for real.
thats a shitty argument... one that isn't even true.
so medicinecabinet isn't a long word because it consists of two words?
then so is chatterbox, mailman and wousewheel

[FreeFreddy]

Medicine cabinet is written just like that - separated. :rolleyes:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Yeah but he's got you with the latter three.

[FreeFreddy]

He didn't get anything. Those words written before are almost all tied together and should be written separated to be grammatical right. :angry: :rifle:
Therefore they cannot be considered being real "long" words. :rolleyes:

[Havell]

Actually, those three words started off as separate words but as they were used together so often they became one word and you can now find them in the dictionary as one word.

[Iron_Scarecrow]

If you are referring to mailman that s one word. But if you are referring to pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis then yes it is many words put together to make one long word but because it has been accepted by the oxford dictionary it is then a legitimate word, no matter what anyone says.

[Dream]

Nejneobhospodarovavatelnejsi

Probably.

Now try to pronounce it....it's hard to pronounce it even in czech, heck it's hard to even write it...

EDIT: meaning: the least fertile (as field for example)...among other things. Hard to translate.

[Stroggy]

well then lets all disregard words like
Cellphone and touchscreen
i'm going to order a new touch screen using by latest cell phone.

Heck even telephone is a word made up of two words, is anyone going to claim its not a real word!?
for anyone who doesn't believe me, tele means far, phone means talk (atleast I think it means talk)

This text was written using a key board, now excuse me while I go heat up some food usiong a micro wave

[Havell]

Stroggy, you are quite right. One the subject of conjoined words, there are certain pairs of words that are often typed as one word when they shouldn't be. The first of these is "a lot" meaning a large quantity, every time I see thise I wince (I know, I'm sad), another is " a little" and one just used by Stroggy would be "at least".

[Stroggy]

sorry, i'm sleepy.
its 1:08
anyway, I can't stand it when people use 'one' instead of 'on' :bleh:

[Havell]

I wasn't accussing you of anything, I can't speak a word of Flemish or Dutch and I'm tring to forget French while I attempt (poorly) at learning German so I probably wouldn't last 2 minutes in Belgium. It is when native English speakers use them when it irritates me. I also have been known to correct exam papers and books :ph34r:

[Stroggy]

Heh
I learned english from the simpsons.
Now I only read english books and have a fluent british accent.
Its funny when people in my class act as if i'm priviledged in english-class (as if I'm from an english-speaking country, or have an english-speaking family... which I don't)

But when I type on a keyboard I do make mistakes, usually the same ones, exampkes are:
soemone (someone)
myb rother (my brother)
and so on and so on

[Aristharus]

I think in Finnish the longest single word is:
epäjärjestäytymättömyydellänsäkään

In finnish you can tie almost any words together and it makes a seemingly "valid" word, so I'm not going to think how long words could be built like that.
although.. epäjärjestäytymättömyydellänsäkään is not on the basic form of the word. The basic form is epäjärjestäytymättömyys which means something like
"disorganization" and after the body of the word are some.... things. hmm, I don't know the terms.

What English does usually with these small words in front of the word, in Finnish you can do it by adding some endings behind the word.
The whole epäjärjestäytymättömyydellänsäkään could be translated for example into something like "(not) even by one's disorganization".

Not is in brackets because that -kään ending is only used in sentences with "not", even though the "not" word isn't there now.

Without the not ("even by one's disorganization") the word would be epäjärjestäytymättömyydellänsäkin


Edit: Oh, I didn't remember a couple of endings that also do fit in the word.
Epäjärjestäytymättömyydellänsäkäänköhän

[Iron_Scarecrow]

Originally posted by Stroggy@Oct 16 2004, 09:09 AM
But when I type on a keyboard I do make mistakes, usually the same ones, exampkes are:
soemone (someone)
myb rother (my brother)
and so on and so on
Everyone makes mistakes on the keyboard. I make many mistakes myself. A popular one for me is ahte instead of hate. :wall: LOL :kiddi:

But what I ahte LOL is when people type with abbreviations. Such as:
@ instead of at :ranting:
ppl instead of people :ranting:
raotflmfao instead oh my fucking god thats hilarious :ranting:
2 instead to or too :ranting:
l8r instead of later :ranting:

I should take my axe to all of them :Titan:. Then :sick: on their remains. :angel: LOL

[Stroggy]

yeah
I make the same msitake
eyar instead of year ROFLMAO
nyways, I g2g to city, so c u l8r ppl :bleh:

[aiwaman]

The longest word in Croatian is "najneindustrijaliziranija". It has 25 letters and it means the "least industrialized". Thats the best translation I could find.

[Fenris]

The longest word in German, where no letter is used twice is "Heizölrückstoßabdämpfung". That's 24 letters.
The best translation i could find is "Fuel Recoil absorber", well that doesn't really makes it easier to understand, does it?

I don't think that there actually is a longest word in german. You could put a lot of different words together and it would still make sense like:

"Donaudampfschifffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänskajüten türschlossschlüssel"

That makes 69 letters and i could go on and on. Strangely enough, this weird word actually does relly have some kind of meaning. In fact it means:

"The key to the door to the room of the captain of a ship of the 'Danubian Steamboat Company' ". :crazy:

[Iron_Scarecrow]

LOL LOL LOL That was hilarious. Thanks for the laugh. LOL LOL LOL


:guns: DANCE! :kiddi: AHAHAHAHA

[Stroggy]

well a word that is actually in some of the more advanced dutch dictionaries is:

Diepzeeduikbootkapiteinshoed

which means
Submarinevesselcaptainshat

[Stobe]

Well, a Finnish linguist named Artturi Kannisto created this.

kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuude llisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakkaankopa han <--103 characters

Its something like: bow in (thinking to bow, or not to bow) pretending

not sure...

BTW: world is "maailma"

[Aristharus]

Originally posted by Stobe@Oct 18 2004, 12:40 AM
kumarreksituteskenteleentuvaisehkollaismaisekkuude llisenneskenteluttelemattomammuuksissansakkaankopa han
That doesn't really make much sense. I really wouldn't call that a "real" Finnish word.

[Kent Paynter]

ei saateri, mistä hitosta tollasia sanoja löytyy? :w00t:

btw sm?rrebr?d is voileipä

[the aloha]

longest word in english typed only with the left hand (on a qwerty keyboard, not sure about dvorak) is stewardess. i forget the right.

[quatroking]

the longest dutch word that i know is
Americaansezeemansonderbroekmethartjes

It means: American seaman underware with hearts

thats 38 letters

[cheesegrater]

Are you guys stringing a bunch of words together to make a word or are these REAL words?

[quatroking]

ummmmm..... i dunno!

[Yamcha]

Lets see.... its


непротивоконституциоснователствувайте

neprotivokonstituciosnovatelstvuvajte

[cheesegrater]

Do you guys actually know how to say these words?

I cheated by looking it up on the internet because this is not a word I would use in common language. I think I need practice just to be able to say it. Apparently the longest word in Polish is "Konstantynopolitanczykowianeczka" which means a little girl from Constantinopole.

[FreeFreddy]

Now this is not an existing word, but it's also a long one, formed out of some together to one:
Ichbindubinnadubetom
:sneaky:

[xcom freak]

Well idon't know for dutch and german but the french longest word is

Anticonstitutionellement

[xoopx]

im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung

[Sebatianos]

Originally posted by xoopx@Jan 24 2005, 11:49 PM
im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung
Here's what it said on the grave next to my gradfathers (although in Maribor/Slovenia, that fellow was burried there still in the time of the Austo-Hungarian monarchy) - millitärischeobertierartzhielfer

[Wahoo]

good thing there are no finnish people here, or we could be here for a while.

[Fawfulhasfury]

electrocepholograph

[xcom freak]

I had Biochem last semester check this word out:

tetrabenzodialdehyde-3-phosphoenol

[Strobe]

Originally posted by xoopx@Jan 24 2005, 09:49 PM
im not german, but im fond of the word

lebensmittelvergiftung
hehe, nice word, but a bad state of health when you have a "lebensmittelvergiftung"
(this actually means being toxicated by rooten/bad food).

the longest word i found in german is:
Zivildienstleistendenvertrauensmannsgesetz (42 letters)

it is a term which is naming a certain law about civil service in germany.
it's a tongue-breaker, indeed! :D

[bjbrains2002]

the longest real word in english is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis, a lung disease that clocks in at 45 letters

[ultranewbie]

I know it's not the longest, but I still love:

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

It's a shame that English doesn't have the amazing ability to generate compound words - Mary Poppins is as good as it gets.

[FreeFreddy]

Dinosaurs have also long names:

Megacephalosaurus
:D

[Nemesis]

I remember there's a place in bangkok which full name is 102 words long. I can't remember it now though.

[Nemesis]

Krungthepmahanakonbowornratanakosinmahintarayudyay amahadiloponoparatanarajthaniburiromudomrajniwesma hasatarnamornpimarnavatarsatitsakattiyavisanukamph rasit

thats it but its not a word anymore coz its a name

[Nemesis]

check it here if u dont believe me

http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/rbeard/name.html

[Tom Henrik]

Nemesis, you have the ability of editing your own posts... Please don't triple post.

Nice city, though :ok: