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I present to you "Svalka" wine glasses. Dump", rubbish heap", or easy, promiscuous woman of ill repute in informal Baltic (and Slavic?) slang.
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I have a "Särna" chair. "Sarna" in Spanish is "Scabies".
Fun fact: Although "Sarna" comes from Latin, seems like it's only used in Romance languages present in the Iberian Peninsula (Galician, Catalan, Portuguese, Spanish...) and not for example in Italian, Romanian or French, as it's an Iberian loan word. Most other languages derive from another different Latin word, "scabiēs".
I swear this is untrue. Half the names of ikea products allude to funny words in German.
I mean, if you were to use that name for an IKEA product, you can do worse than wine glasses :P
A bed would be a little too on the nose I think.
My favorite Ikea product name.
Svalka has been around from at least year 2000. Might even be one of the reasons for the current practice.