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 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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 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

Chung wrote:

You mean, "Vuk Karadžić". Vuk Drasković is a politician.


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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 Message 27 of 162
15 October 2009 at 5:00pm | IP Logged 
Широта - width, Russian
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 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)


You're correct.


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 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

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.

LanguageSponge wrote:
Широта - width, Russian


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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 Message 30 of 162
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ый = "moon" (Sakha)
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 Message 31 of 162
15 October 2009 at 7:46pm | IP Logged 
этаж
'story' (of a building), Russian
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 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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