Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2003, 20:00 |
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--- Pavel Iosad skrzypszy:
> > > > I know next to nothing about Russian; where does "aeroflot" come
> > > > from?
> > >
> > > "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? Yes, that is quite probable, since a lot
of Russian words connected with sea, ships, etc. are borrowed directly from
Dutch. Here in Zaandam, only three minutes from my 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...
Jan
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