"Kiam mi malvarmumas, mi ternas kaj tusas."
Translation:When I have a cold, I sneeze and cough.
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In Italian we say starnuto, which comes from latin "sternutatio"
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The phrase, "ternas kaj tusas" oddly sounds a lot like the English phrase, "toss and turn."
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According to PIV, "malvarmumi" is more precisely "to become sick due to exposure to cold."
Related terms: korizo (cold - viral rhinitis), gripo (influenza, but used informally for other respiratory viruses), kataro (catarrh - mucoid discharge), rinito (rhinitis)
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Credits to Vikungen (he posted it in another discussion):
malvarmumi --- mal + varma + um + i (opposite of) + (warm) + (related in an unspecific way) + (infinitive verb ending)
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I sometimes mix up the meanings of "terni" (to sneeze) and "tusi" (to cough).
Does anyone know of a nice mnemonic trick to remember which is which?
RobiTUSSin is for coughs, directly from the Latin "tussio".
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Excellent! And thanks for the etymology lesson!
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Tusi comes from the French tousser, which is similar to the Spanish toser, the Italian tossire, etc...
If it helps, try and remember that both "terni" and "sneeze" have the letter n in them, and both "tusi" and "cough" have the letter u.
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Well, the mnemonic I used might only be helpful if you speak Dutch... in Dutch, "niezen" is "to sneeze", and "terni" kind of ends in the first sound of "niezen" (I guess the English also has approximately that sound in the word "sneeze"). The first part is "ter", so I think of "terra" for "world" or "earth", and I imagine someone sneezing snot onto the earth.
Failing that, I think the "i" sound is a bit more sneezy and the "u" sound (in "tusi") is a bit more coughy.
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Is it just me, or does it sound like he is singing the prompt?
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Because the authors didn't think of all the possible translations. This one is definitely correct.
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This doesn't seem right. If malvarma can't mean cool, then surely virus is a more appropriate word than cold here. Also when cold causes illness it is hypothermia, not rhinovirus
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But having a cold is what people call it when you caught a rhinovirus, right? So in that sense, I think the translation is fine. I'm not sure what you mean about malvarma not being able to mean cool. I guess it means cold and cool would be more like malvarmeta, but doesn't cold relate to having a cold (insofar as it does) just as well as cool, if not better?
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Sorry, malvarmeta can't mean cool. Cool is also "what people call it", but instead of malvarmeta we have mojosa (which is actually a much better word for "trendy" than cool). I just don't get how malvarmumas is ok for the sickness "cold", but malvarmeta was wrong for being "cool"? It seems to be the same situation, other than there are no egos involved with the illness?
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Oh, you're talking about cool in the sense of mojosa? Well, obviously malvarmeta cannot mean cool in that sense. However, cool in English can also mean something along the lines of moderately cold. And in that sense, I think malvarmeta is pretty accurate.
That might also be the answer to your question, if when you used malvarmeta to translate cool when it had the sense mojosa, that would be wrong. Do you think that might be what happened, or was it something else?
