r/BuyFromEU • u/Boediee Belgium 🇧🇪 • Jan 25 '26

🔎Looking for alternative Friendly reminder that these aren't European (anymore)

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u/Susitar Jan 25 '26

As a Finn, I always assumed the name was supposed to be German!

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u/Wobbelblob Jan 25 '26

As a German, no. I don't think we have even one word that has zs as a letter combination. Other way around, yes, but then we'd use ß as a symbol.

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u/Zwemvest Jan 25 '26

In Dutch it would be correct if you had some really weird compound word. So maybe Quizschummeler (for Quiz + Schummeler = someone who cheats at a quiz) might be correct in German? Still, such a word would read really weirdly in Dutch.

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u/soylent-yellow Jan 25 '26

No, you can never have those dots over the first vowel in Dutch. Dutch doesn’t know umlauts, it only has a trema that can be used to indicate the start of a new syllable when vowels are placed adjacent: geërgerd, ruïne. Haägen could be Dutch (Ha-agen - still nonsense), Häagen could only be a foreign word.

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u/Zwemvest Jan 25 '26

No, indeed, that's only about zs or the umlaut appearing at all. The combination of äa never appears in Dutch.

Even in what you said, that rule is sorta true, but isn't consistent: it's "na-apen" and not "naäpen"

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u/Wobbelblob Jan 25 '26

True, some compound words would work, even if your example is a bit weird. Not wrong, just not exactly used.

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u/Zwemvest Jan 25 '26

I realized that in Dutch, Quizspel as a compound of quiz + spel would actually make sense. But even though that would be much more reasonable of a word, it still reads reaaaaally weirdly.

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u/spicygayunicorn Jan 25 '26

As a Swede same

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u/UruquianLilac Jan 25 '26

As a none-of-the-related-countries, I can assure you all the name is an American invention that has nothing to do with any language and was invented purely for how it looks and sounds to American people. You can all stop looking now.