On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 10:55:03 CDT, Gadi Evron said: > CD-ROM probablt? A bit of research with a good online English-Latvian dictionary says that if you want to be formal, the round thing is called a "lasumatminas kompaktdisks" (gaak - from "lasu" to read, and "atminas" memories, and the rest is loanwords), and the hardware that reads the bits (the CD-ROM drive) is a 'diskdzinis'. More ouch. 'disk' as a loanword, and 'dzinis' from the word to drive cattle. And "computer" translates as "skaitlotajs" (literally, "something that counts"). The joys of trying to retrofit 21st century tech words onto a language that's stayed mostly true to its Bronze Age agrarian roots. ;)
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