Hello,
> > > > "Flot" is the word for "fleet". So "aeroflot" means "air
> > > > fleet". That's my guess, at least.
> >
> > It is, and I strongly suspect its direct source is Dutch.
>
> Dutch??? The word "vloot", you mean?
The same.
> Yes, that is quite probable, since a lot
> of Russian words connected with sea, ships, etc. are borrowed
> directly from Dutch.
My point exactly.
> Here in Zaandam, only three minutes frommy place, we
> have a huge statue of Peter I, who spent some time here and took
> home a lot of knowledge, vocabulary, and Dutch workers...
How huge is it, by the way? :-) Most Dutch descriptions of Peter den
Store I've read portray him as gigantic. I wonder if this has been
reflected in the statue :-)
But I don't think it's larger than the awful one we have here stuck in
the middle of Moskva river. :-(
Pavel
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