Re: NATLANG: Scary Document
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, April 7, 2003, 19:35 |
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Jan van Steenbergen ikrí:
> --- Eamon Graham skrzypszy:
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> > 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.
A good guess, Janie! Although "Aeroflot" is a brand name, and has no particular
meaning, it may be analyzed exactly this way. Soviet Russian has lots of such
words. I like most of all "Hydropark" - that's a park in Kiev, at a beautiful
island amidst of Dnieper river.
--
Yitzik
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