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| tricycle Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5663 days ago 99 posts - 107 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 25 of 162 15 October 2009 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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Sennin -- Haha, thanks. I actually just caught that when scrolling through again. "Cow thing" has a nice ring to it,
doesn't it? царевица - corn, Bulgarian (hopefully spelled correctly this time) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6703 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 26 of 162 15 October 2009 at 10:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Interesting, - царевица in Russian is the wife of a Zar, so how that can become 'corn' in Bulgarian is a mystery
I most certainly meant "Vuk Karadžić" - I have visited the monument for the inventor of the Serbian alphabet in Beograd and so firmly believed that I could remember his name that I didn't even check the name before writing it. And now for the new word: "Чех" = Czech in Russian (and the female czech is a "чешка") And probably čech, češka in Čeština (but that's not a language I have studied) Edited by Iversen on 15 October 2009 at 10:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5766 days ago 1197 posts - 1487 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Welsh, Russian, Japanese, Slovenian, Greek, Italian | Message 27 of 162 15 October 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Широта - width, Russian
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 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6603 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 28 of 162 15 October 2009 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
You're correct. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6034 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 29 of 162 15 October 2009 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Haha, that's hilarious. False friends occur quite often between Russian and Bulgarian. I believe the difference is in the way Bulgarian forms the feminine of some words. The Bulgarian word for queen is Царица ( without -eв- in the middle ). Another example I can think of is Магаре/Магарица = a male/female donkey ( = a jack/jennet? I'm not entirely sure what's the English terminology here) As tricycle worte, царевица means corn; It has a totally different meaning, so it's a false friend. There's also the difference between Tzar and King, and their female counterparts, but I won't get into that because you already know about it.
Щъркел - a stork, Bulgarian (and in Russian, apparently, the word is аист )  Edited by Sennin on 15 October 2009 at 7:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 30 of 162 15 October 2009 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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ый = "moon" (Sakha)
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5567 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 31 of 162 15 October 2009 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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этаж
'story' (of a building), Russian 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6775 days ago 358 posts - 422 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, Ukrainian Studies: Spanish | Message 32 of 162 15 October 2009 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The Russian for the wife of a Tsar is царица (just like Bulgarian), not царевица. Perhaps Iversen was thrown off by царевна, which is Tsar's daughter.
There is also a Russian expression that hints at how corn might be related to royalty. It goes "Кукуруза - царица полей". ("Corn is the tsarina of the fields"). Now that we've gotten the Tsar's relatives straight, let's resume the game: Юшка = "soup"/"broth", Ukrainian. Edited by Russianbear on 15 October 2009 at 10:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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