Beer in Europe
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Author's Game Description
Place the word for beer in the different European countries. The same word can be used in more than one country.
Category: Linguistics Games
Created by niklas, 22 Oct, 2007
5 ratingsPlayed 165 times | 2 Fav's
Euhan 3 months ago
barott 5 months ago
STupid. Beer i alcjol and i to no use what so ever for mankind.
Niklas 2 years ago
Austria and Germany has Bier with a capital B, the Netherlands has a small b, bier.
RonaldDerGrosse 2 years ago
check Austria. The first bier that came up didn't cancel it but a later one did.
Niklas 2 years ago
data from:
http://www.geocities.com/mosvends/beer.html
In Europe there are four main words for beer. Strictly speaking, ale is used in the North, beer in the West, cerveza in the South, and pivo in the East.
Beer (bier, bière, birra, bjor, etc) probably derives from Latin bibere (to drink) or biber (a drink). The word beer is not related to the word brew.
Ale (øl, olut, etc) derives from alum. The original meaning is "bitter".
Cerveza (cerveja, sirbisi, sör, cwrw, etc) derives from the old Gaulish word for beer. In Gaul (France) itself it was replaced by bière in the 15th century.
Pivo, the word used in most Slavonic languages, derives from the old word piwwo (barley).
| Highscores — Beer in Europe | Place 1 - 10 | |||
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| Player Name | Score | Time | Date of Play | |
| 1 | slagplan | 100% | 0:37.5 min. | 26 Oct, 2008 |
| 2 | Phoebeheyman | 100% | 0:49.1 min. | 28 Jan, 2008 |
| 3 | Beltenebros | 100% | 0:52.9 min. | 5 Nov, 2007 |
| 4 | dzoena | 100% | 0:59.8 min. | 9 May, 2008 |
| 5 | emili | 100% | 1:09.2 min. | 8 Apr, 2008 |
| 6 | Pannonicus | 100% | 1:16.7 min. | 12 Apr, 2009 |
| 7 | Euhan | 100% | 1:22.8 min. | 27 Jul, 2009 |
| 8 | Niklas | 100% | 1:26.0 min. | 21 Apr, 2008 |
| 9 | sral | 100% | 1:28.8 min. | 13 May, 2008 |
| 10 | Moralix | 78% | 3:48.4 min. | 5 Apr, 2009 |
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@barott: If you feel that way, this game is very useful so that you can make sure not to order it by mistake.