WotD: hire

[muckefuck]

1. anheuern
2. huren
3. contratar
4. contractar
5. engager
6. cyflogi
7. fostaigh
8. 고용하다 (雇用하다)
9. 雇傭 gùyōng

Notes: I don't know how I'll ever be able to say (2) with a straight face.

Comments

[bwillsouth.livejournal.com]

lol huren

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

JAPANESE: 雇う, yato.u
HEBREW: שכר, sachar, being the root for "wages", "rent", and even "reward".
BASQUE: alokairu
CHEROKEE: ᎠᏔᎾᏢᏗ, adanatlvdi
RUSSIAN: нанимать, nanimat'

Okay, I have to ask -- what's up with your "huren"? I can't say I understand why it's so funny.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

absolutely. It bears hardly any resemblance to hoer.

Favourite Dutch word: hoererei (which is probably hoererij these days, now I think about it). There's something delightfully rhythmic about it.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

But it bears absolute resemblance to Huren!

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

you know, it's a testament to how thoroughly Dutch has replaced German in my head that I didn't even think of it. Weird.

...so is that the source of the English, I wonder? Something for hire?

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Hie thee to the American Heritage Dictionary. Srsly!

Derivatives of Indo-European roots have often acquired starkly contrasting meanings. A prime example is the case of the root *kā–, “to like, desire.” From it was derived a stem *kāro–, from which came the prehistoric Common Germanic word *hōraz with the underlying meaning “one who desires” and the effective meaning “adulterer.” The feminine of this, *hōrōn–, became hōre in Old English, the ancestor of Modern English whore. In another branch of the Indo-European family, the same stem *kāro– produced the Latin word cārus, “dear.” This word has several derivatives borrowed into English, including caress, cherish, and charity, in Christian doctrine the highest form of love and the greatest of the theological virtues. •Another derivative of the root *kā– in Indo-European was *kāmo–, a descendant of which is the Sanskrit word for “love,” kāma, appearing in the name of the most famous treatise on love and lovemaking, the Kamasutra.

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

this just goes to prove my first law of etymology: that any link I guess at will certainly be wrong.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I just looked up "huren". Yeah, pretend I said nothing. ^O^

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

anheuern! :)

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

Na, man spricht das gleich aus!

[pne.livejournal.com]

Wobei ich eher für "einstellen" oder "anstellen" plädieren würde, wenn es sich nicht gerade um Seeleute handelt.

[itchwoot.livejournal.com]

Ja, oder "engagieren".

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hm, ja; je nachdem, was der/die Neue genau tun soll.

(Ich würde z.B. einen Zauberkünstler oder vielleicht auch einen Manager engagieren, aber keinen Programmierer oder Friseur.)

[areia.livejournal.com]

I don't have a Dutch dictionary in front of me (except for the Van Dale website), but I think I would use inhuren or aannemen instead of huren. I believe huren is technically correct, but I would only use it to mean rent rather than hire.

Ik huur sinds vorige week een huis, en ik ga morgen een schoonmaakster inhuren.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking the same thing -- I'm familiar with only seeing huur to mean "rent".

[bengt.livejournal.com]

#2 reminds me of this time I was walking through the center of town. And there was this woman, really pissed at the florist for some reason. And she pounded the front window and yelled "Du vertrocknete Hure!!"

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

The Spanish and Catalan versions are so boring!

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

That's why you need to suggest a more interesting choice for Word of the Day!

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

Mmmm.
I'm thinking in background mode... I need to find a word which looks quite different in the 6 languages I know