tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 04 20:26:02 1996
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Re: GOWRAN=HAVRAN
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Andrew Adamatzky wrote:
> > >I know the name "Gowran" isthe slavic pronounciation of the word "crow."
> > >Maddalena Romano
> >
> > I think you're on the wrong track here. I'm not sure what you mean by a
> > "slavic pronounciation" of "crow", but in Russian (for example) there are
> > two often confused words for these black birds:
> > BOPOH (VO-ron) "raven"
> > BOPOHA (va-RO-na) "crow"
> > -- Voragh
> Maddalena is wright. I opened Russian-Czech dictionary and found:
>
> BOPOH ('raven' in Russian) = HAVRAN ('raven' in Czech)
>
> If you will pronounce "H" as "G", first "A" as "O" and "V" as "W" it
> will be Q.E.D.
>
> But 'crow' in Czech will be VRANA.
>
> --- Je
>
thanks, but i remeber a list of words being with "g" that took it's origin
from gowran as well. Anyone know of that?
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