It's amazing so many people are able to use English as a second language.

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Add Finnish to the list, "kirpputori" = flea market.

Is tori ever used like plaza, like the Swedish word "torg?" The way I read tori in my head makes it sound almost homophonous with torg, hence why I ask.

A number of Slavic, Baltic, Norse, (and also Finnic languages like Finnish and Estonian) use some form of this word for market. It originated in Proto-slavic and passed through Old Norse into descendant languages.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%82%D1%8A%D1%80%D0%B3%D1%8A#Old_East_Slavic

The most interesting thing is that the root appears to have borrowed into Finnish twice, once probably from Slavic (as turku) and once from Old Norse (as tori).