To run errands

[ThomasK]

Can you tell me how you refer to "running errands" in your language and add a little comment?

Dutch: boodschappen doen, where boodschap is strictly speaking message, -per, messenger, probably something to be done by someone whose task it is to take away of to go and get. Ge-bod and ver-bod (order and ban) have the same root.
The root of the English word errands is clear, I notice.
Faire des courses seems to imply going, running at least...

 

[Circunflejo]

Spanish: hacer recados. The RAE says that recado comes from the verb recadar and recadar from the Latin verb recapitare (receive, collect). But recado isn't what you collect but what you send… Hacer=make/do.

 

[ThomasK]

We have that problem too: boodschap can also be a message, brought by a messenger (bode --- postman, postbode), but probably the idea of task in Dutch has always been there: a message = a message-to-be-brought...

 

[apmoy70]

In Greek it's «κάνω θελήματα» [ˈka.nɔ θeˈli.ma.ta] --> to do errands or «τρέχω θελήματα» [ˈtre.xɔ θeˈli.ma.ta] --> to run errands

-MoGr neut. noun «θέλημα» [θeˈli.ma] (nom. sing.), «θελήματα» [θeˈli.ma.ta] (nom. pl.) --> will, desire, errand < Classical 3rd declension deverbative neut. noun «θέλημα» tʰélēmă (nom .sing.), «θελήματος» tʰĕlḗmătŏs (gen. sing.) --> will, desire, errand < Classical v. «ἐθέλω» ĕtʰélō --> to want, wish (PIE *h₁ɡʷʰel- to wish cf ΟCS желѣти (želěti), to want, wish) + Classical suffix for neuter nouns «-μα» -mă.

 

[ThomasK]

I suppose Telemachus did not run θελήματα though! ;-) [Just trying to be funny because the new word reminded me of that historic name]

 

[Penyafort]

In Catalan,

fer encàrrecs [do/make + encàrrec 'errand, order' from the verb encarregar from V. Latin *incarricare 'to load a two-wheeled wagon or carrus'.​

fer comandes [do/make + comanda 'errand, order' from the verb comandar from V. Latin *commandare ​

 

[jazyk]

There's no lexicalized expression in Portuguese: To run an errand (in Portuguese)

 

[Starless74]

Italiano: sbrigare commissioni/faccende.
"Commissioni" (etymologically too) usually indicates errands somebody else sends you on;
"faccende" means errands you go on for yourself (or even matters you deal with in general, without necessarily having to go somewhere).

 

[ThomasK]

"faccende" means errands you go on for yourself (or even matters you deal with in general, without necessarily having to go somewhere).

Do I recognize a gerundivum as in memorandum, agenda, addendum? I suppose so…

 

[Starless74]

Do I recognize a gerundivum as in memorandum, agenda, addendum?

Correct. From facienda.

 

[Welsh_Sion]

Welsh:

Base form for 'errand' - neges (n.f.)

gwneud negesi
to make/do messages

mynd ar neges
to go on messages

mynd ar berwyl
to go on a bearing
,
mynd i neges
to go to a message

neges is a difficult word to translate as it sometimes 'message', 'errand', 'shopping', 'groceries'. It has these possible plural forms:
negesau, negeseuau, negesi, negeseuon which have to matched up with the appropiate noun. Negeseuon can only apply to (computer) messages, whereas negesau is 'shopping'.

 

[ThomasK]

Funny thing, this association message/ errand, which we also have in Dutch...

I cannot find the meaning of "go on a bearing"...