I've been searching for the answer for nearly about 15 hours now, and I'm pretty sure the answer is "no", but just to be sure:
Is there a word in English for 24 hours/day + night? I've trying to find a translation for the Dutch word "etmaal", but couldn't come up with anything.
You raise an interesting question... I've never really thought about that before. But if there is an English word for a whole 24-hour period, I've never heard it. Sorry...
I don't know of any specific words.
Sorry.
I believe that's what we just call a day here...I dunno though...
Like Shika said, Uno Día (One day en Español).
hah, okay. Thanks everyone. This probably is the first time I've stumbled on an objective word I can't translate into English.
I guess it kind of depends on the function of the word you're looking for. If it's an adjective... Mmm...maybe around-the-clock? Would perpetually work? It seems that "24 hours/day + night" would just reset itself, making it seem like an infinite loop... Man, my suggestions are crappy... :-*
If it's a noun, then day would probably be at its greatest simplification. Sorry.
Dawn of the second day?
Neah, it's a noun. It's just that in Dutch, we usually call the 24-hours cycle a "dag" ("day"), like in English. But if we need to specifically indicate the entire thing (so no confusion can exist), we have the word "etmaal".
Sometimes exact words aren't the best thing to try to go with in a translation, so in such a case, a phrase would be more appropriate like oh...
(I can't figure out what type of situation would require that I use a word for a day/night cycle...)
Quote from: LadyNintendo on October 08, 2007, 10:36:53 PM
Neah, it's a noun. It's just that in Dutch, we usually call the 24-hours cycle a "dag" ("day"), like in English. But if we need to specifically indicate the entire thing (so no confusion can exist), we have the word "etmaal".
In that case, I suppose the only word is "day." English uses it for both the cycle and a unit of time. But then again...a (solar) day is also the time it takes for any one celestial body to make a complete 360
o rotation on its axis once, which in the case of Earth, it's about 23 hours and 56 minutes...I think. But for simplicity, people round it to 24. So a "day" can refer to that, too.
In your case, LN, it appears to me that
dag and
etmaal are synonyms, but they can't be if there are different usages between the two... Eh, I guess in a way, I'm just as confused as you are. :P
QuoteSometimes exact words aren't the best thing to try to go with in a translation, so in such a case, a phrase would be more appropriate like oh...
I know, but that's not really the issue. It's just that, it's quite a useful word that doesn't indicate something abstract, so I was quite surprised it doesn't exist in English (I woudn't know about any other language).
QuoteIn your case, LN, it appears to me that dag and etmaal are synonyms, but they can't be if there are different usages between the two... Eh, I guess in a way, I'm just as confused as you are.
Not really. Lke I said, "etmaal" can only mean the whole thing of 24 hours, while "dag"/day can refer both to that and to just a part of itself (the part when it's not night).
But in what type of context would such a word need to be used? Can you give us an example?
Well, the reason I came up wit this question is because I was thinking about what games have been promised in the past, but for whatever reason never released. Monkey Island 5, Lady Sia 2, Duke Nukem Forever, LBA3, Dungeon Keeper 3, Dead Phoenix, Raven Sword etc. My thoughts eventually stumbled upon what the third "TLOZ:Oracle of"-game would've or could've been like. Of course, the issue of Farore's Oracle status and subsequently the title of the game came up. Since she most likely only bears the title of Oracle of Secrets because of her link-supporting role in the two games she was put into as some kind of leftover, I was wondering what she could've been. Since the other two have time-related titles, I thought "Orakel van Etmalen" is quite well possible. But somehow the translation of "Oracle of Days" just doesn't cover it appropriately. That would've been like calling Din the "Oracle of Spring and Summer".
How about "The Oracle of Hours"? I had a theory about that whole thing, that maybe it had something to do with that, day-night. I really really did think that. If Zeldablog is still up, try searching the comments for Dark Mime Gogo. I mention it somewhere... Can't remember what the article topic was though... though it'd have to be sometime in spring 2007 I think.
heheh, that's exactly to what I had changed the title when I figured the first one didn't work. I'll see if I can find your comment.
Quote from: LadyNintendo on October 10, 2007, 06:22:31 AM
Not really. Lke I said, "etmaal" can only mean the whole thing of 24 hours, while "dag"/day can refer both to that and to just a part of itself (the part when it's not night).
Ah, I think I get you... Mmm...maybe
dawn would work (a.k.a., Link's idea)? There's also
daytime, I guess... Gah, I'm sorry; I feel like I'm just blurting out stuff. ???