Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Hello,

Clint wrote:
> [Ivan] Grozny=great=terrible?  Ivan the terrible?
The Terrible.

> Just checking my cognates.  Isn't "grozny" also
> related to the Polish unit of currency?
The Polish currency is zloty, conneccted with R. "zoloto" "gold" (and,
in many dialects, excrements. Really), cognate to "zolotoy" "golden".

> (Or are they in Euro-land now?  They would be,
> wouldn't they?)
No and no. Poland is not an EU state yet.

Pavel
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Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru

'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
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