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tricycle Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 5677 days ago 99 posts - 107 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French
| Message 25 of 162 15 October 2009 at 9:28am | IP Logged |
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)
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Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6717 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
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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
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| LanguageSponge Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5780 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 |
Широта - width, Russian
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magister Pro Member United States Joined 6617 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 |
Iversen wrote:
And probably čech, češka in Čeština (but that's not a language I have studied)
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You're correct.
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6048 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds
| Message 29 of 162 15 October 2009 at 5:52pm | IP Logged |
Iversen wrote:
Interesting, - царевица in Russian is the wife of a Zar, so how that can become 'corn' in Bulgarian is a mystery
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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
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7170 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 |
ый = "moon" (Sakha)
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5581 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 |
этаж
'story' (of a building), Russian
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| Russianbear Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6789 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 |
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
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