Old Wives tale in Spanish!

[Eircamae86]

I know this has been covered before but can someone who actually speaks spanish confirm or deny that Levin & trueno = lightening and thunder in spanish.........

[JonnyAE86]

No sir, Trueno means Thunder in Spanish, Levin is some sort of old english "Gaelic" for Lighting.

PS: form wikipedia: "Gaelic as an adjective means "pertaining to the Gaels", including language and culture. As a noun, it may refer to the group of languages spoken by the Gaels, or to any one of the individual languages. It is a member of the Goidelic branch of the Celtic languages, and includes Scots Gaelic, Irish and Manx. These are distinct from the Brythonic group of Celtic languages, which is composed of Cornish, Breton and Welsh"

[Eircamae86]

I speak the Irish version & Im fucked if I ever heard of it!!

[banpei]

I can confirm it!
I once had a dinner with some friends and gave them a ride in the Trueno. One of them was a Spanish girl and she was really amazed that the Japanese car was called Thunder and she was having a ride in the thunder!

Also if you search on trueno on images.google.com you will come across some spanish Captain Trueno comics.

But we already knew that a long time ago:
http://www.aeu86.org/viewtopic/japanese-romanji/t/2920

And even you participated in that discussion:
http://www.aeu86.org/viewtopic/ae86/p/41895#41895

[Eircamae86]

Look banpei what happened between you and a spanish girl in the back of the Trueno is your own businness, Im sure she say the thunder, just hope for her it wasnt as quick as lightening

[leckter]

Hello boys!!

My english is very bad, but i can help you.

Trueno means Thunder in Spanish, (JonnyAE86 you are right!!)
Levin haven't translation to Spanish.

Here in Spain for example the Mitsubishi Pajero must change the name to "Montero" because Pajero is a committed name....

[Eircamae86]

To confirm, the letter V does not exist in celtic language, so that rules that out.

[banpei]

Eircamae86 Wrote:Look banpei what happened between you and a spanish girl in the back of the Trueno is your own businness, Im sure she say the thunder, just hope for her it wasnt as quick as lightening

LOL!
As far as I can recall that never happened: one of the other people in the car was my GF! Otherwise she probably would not be my GF right now.

Dictionary.com says the word Levin is Middle English.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/levin

[Ivan141]

It's old middle english according to some dictionaries...archaic as *

Levene (n.) - Lightning.


The thondir, with his firy /levene/,
So cruel was upon the hevene.


- Gower, MS. Soc. Antiq. 134


With sodeyne tempest and with firy /levene/,
By the goddes sente doun from hevene.


- Lydgate, MS. Digby 230

[JonnyAE86]

leckter Wrote:Hello boys!!

My english is very bad, but i can help you.

Trueno means Thunder in Spanish, (JonnyAE86 you are right!!)
Levin haven't translation to Spanish.

Here in Spain for example the Mitsubishi Pajero must change the name to "Montero" because Pajero is a committed name....

Ahahah, yes Pajero is "wanker" in Spanish, same happened with MR2 in France cause it reads like: "Its shitter"