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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 9 of 18 22 December 2008 at 7:03am | IP Logged | ||
Excellent site for writing in different scripts. http://www.lexilogos.com/clavier/multilingue.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SamD Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6665 days ago 823 posts - 987 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Norwegian | Message 10 of 18 23 December 2008 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
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German--das Leben
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| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5892 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 11 of 18 25 December 2008 at 1:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Latin it is vita, quite the same as in Italian.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6040 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 12 of 18 26 December 2008 at 3:16am | IP Logged | ||
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"Живот" /zhivot/ in Bulgarian.
The similarity with Czech is striking (život.) The Russian and Polish words seems to be slightly further away (жизнь, życie.) Edited by Sennin on 26 December 2008 at 3:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FrancescoP Octoglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5956 days ago 169 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Italian*, French, English, German, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Norwegian Studies: Georgian, Japanese, Croatian, Greek | Message 13 of 18 26 December 2008 at 3:29am | IP Logged | ||
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It's really живот in Bulgarian? This is funny, because in Russian the same word means "belly"... :)
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6040 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 14 of 18 26 December 2008 at 3:52am | IP Logged | ||
Haha.... that's curious. There are a lot of false cognates between Russian and Bulgarian. Another (rather stupid) example is "пылесос". It sounds like "chicken sauce" to me, but it's actually vacuum cleaner. Edited by Sennin on 26 December 2008 at 4:46pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5838 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 15 of 18 26 December 2008 at 6:05am | IP Logged | ||
Yes, as I pointed out earlier in this thread život is Cz for life whereas in Russian it means belly. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Theodisce Octoglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5892 days ago 127 posts - 167 votes Speaks: Polish*, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian, Czech, French, English, German Studies: Italian, Spanish, Slovak, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Portuguese | Message 16 of 18 26 December 2008 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Żywot means belly also in Old Polish as in the "Hail Mary" prayer: "błogosławiony owoc żywota Twojego"- "blessed is the fruit of thy womb"
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