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Long shot probably, but does anyone here know (or know someone who knows) Estonian?

Context is that I was playing with Google Translate and dropped in the name of Murderface McKenzie*, translating it into a number of languages for the hell of it.

* on the off chance someone randomly drops by who doesn't read my DW, that's the name of my current Skyrim character

And found that Google Translate renders "murderface" in Estonian as: mõrva nägu

On further experimentation, "mõrva nägu" translates back into English as "the murder face," more or less as expected, "mõrva" by itself translates as "murder" but... "mõrvanägu" as one word translates into "killer."

So my question is: (1) is this due to machine translation weirdness, (2) due to people suggesting edits and gaming Google Translate, or (3) does Estonian really have a word that literally translates "murderface"?

I mean, I'd put money down on #2, but if #3 is the case, I'm totally going to have to name a character Mõrvanägu.

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Google translate comes back with nagu by itself = face, but I've run the compound word through a couple of over online Estonian dictionaries and not gotten any results (I myself do not speak Estonian). I think using the compound word as a name would still be pretty nifty.

It’s possible that’s what Murderface the Metapocalypse character is named in translation, if it’s translated into Estonian, and that’s what’s driving Google Translate, but you never can tell with these things.

I have no idea, but when I went to Estonia and asked a taxi driver for a few words of the language to help me around town, he told me drily that the only way to learn Estonian is to learn Finnish and then become very drunk, so there's that.

Haha! I suppose that fits Murderface. XD