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		pdntspa 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A look at Firefox forks It's just another foreign-sounding word in a language full of kidnapped vocabulary

nameequalsmain 9 months ago [–]

Mullvad is Swedish for "mole". Mull is a word for soil, and "vad" seems to come from "vada", wade. So translated it would be "soilwade".

To me, it sounds like just another word.

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