Re: CHAT: Support/Oppression of Conlanging

Thanks.  But I've hear "grozny" in another context and
I'm not sure where.
Clint

--- Pavel Iosad <pavel_iosad@...> wrote:
> 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
> --
> Pavel Iosad               pavel_iosad@mail.ru
>
> 'I am a philologist, and thus a misunderstood man'
>                  --JRR Tolkien, _The Notion Club
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