Re: OT coins and currency
| From: | Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, January 11, 2006, 8:15 |
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Philip Newton jazdy:
> On 1/9/06, Isaac Penzev <isaacp@...> wrote:
> > For now the only form I saw is |евро| in
> > Russian and |євро| in Ukrainian. Both indeclinable masculine.
>
> And what is the word for "Europe" in those languages? Are the first
> four letters of the word the same as what you gave as the name of the
> currency?
Yes, they are the same in spelling, and different in propnunciation. Ru.
|Европа| [jiv"rop@], Uk. |Європа| [jew"rOpa] - cf. Ru. ["jevr@], Uk.
["jEwrO].
-- Yitzik
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