CashuMints.space/web/src/i18n/GLOSSARY.md

Translation glossary

The terms this site keeps consistent across every language. Decide a term once here, then use it everywhere: a reader who meets "reseña" on the home page and "opinión" on a mint page has to work out whether they are the same thing.

Adding a fourth language starts here, not in the catalog. Fill in the column, then translate en.json with it beside you.

House rules, in every language

• Sentence case. Headings, buttons, labels. Not Title Case, not ALL CAPS. (Small caps on section labels come from CSS, so the source string stays sentence case.)
• No em dashes. Ever, in any language. Use a comma, a colon, or two sentences. Spanish and Dutch both reach for the em dash naturally; do not.
• Specific over clever. "Offline since 3 Aug 2026" beats "this mint has gone quiet".
• Second person, informal. Spanish tú, Dutch je. Never usted, never u.
• Protocol terms stay English. See the table.
• Never translate data. Review text, reviewer names, mint names, mint descriptions, MOTD, URLs, npubs, version strings. Those are source data, not site copy.

The terms

English	Spanish	Dutch	Note
mint (noun)	el mint	de mint	Never "casa de la moneda" / "munt". It is the Cashu term.
mint (verb)	acuñar	minten	Spanish spells it out once per page then uses it plainly.
melt (verb)	fundir	melten	Same rule as mint.
minting	la acuñación	minten
melting	el fundido	melten
ecash	ecash	ecash	Never "dinero electrónico".
sat / sats	sat / sats	sat / sats	Never translated, never inflected.
Lightning	Lightning	Lightning	Capital L, no article games.
NUT / NUT-04	NUT / NUT-04	NUT / NUT-04	The number is the name. The plain-language label beside it IS translated.
Nostr	Nostr	Nostr
NIP-87, NIP-07, NIP-46	unchanged	unchanged
relay	el relay	de relay	Plural: relays. Not "retransmisor" / "doorgeefluik".
signer	el firmante	de signer	Dutch keeps the loanword: NL Nostr users say "signer".
review (the written thing)	la reseña	de review
rating (the stars)	la valoración	de beoordeling	Deliberately a different word from review in all three.
reviewer	quien escribió la reseña	wie de review schreef	Avoid a noun that implies a role or an account.
wallet	el monedero	de wallet	Spanish follows bitcoin.org/es. Dutch keeps the loanword.
key (private/public)	la clave	de sleutel
npub / pubkey	npub / pubkey	npub / pubkey
custodial	custodial	custodiaal	Always followed by what it means, never left bare.
online (a mint)	en línea	online
offline (a mint)	sin conexión	offline	Shorter than "fuera de línea" and standard for a status.
unreachable	no responde	onbereikbaar
uptime	disponibilidad	uptime
indexed	indexado	geïndexeerd
to probe (a mint)	comprobar	controleren
mint URL	la URL del mint	de mint-URL
bunker link	el enlace bunker	de bunker-link	bunker:// itself is never translated.
seed phrase	la frase semilla	de seed phrase

Two decisions worth knowing

Spanish spells out mint and melt on first use, then stops. acuñar (mint) the first time a page uses it, acuñar after that. Spanish-speaking Bitcoin readers know the English verbs, but a page that only ever says "mint" reads as untranslated. Dutch does not need this: minten and melten are what NL and BE Nostr users actually write.

Dutch keeps more English than Spanish does. review, wallet, signer, online, uptime are all ordinary Dutch now, and translating them ("beoordeling" for the written review, "portemonnee", "ondertekenaar") reads as stiff or, worse, as a different concept. Spanish translates more, because Spanish tech writing does.

Safety copy

The warning banners (mint.warnings.*) and the disclaimer are the copy someone reads before they risk money. Translate them for plain, unambiguous meaning, not word for word. If a literal translation is ambiguous about whether money can get out of a mint, the translation is wrong even if every word is right. Short sentences. No hedging.