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"Strange " English language.. [255]
This thread is about the English language
But I nicely offered this example >
dream --- srb. dremati (state between sleeping and being awaken, light sleeping)
secret --- srb. sakriti, skriti (to hide)
child --- srb. čeljade, read cheljade
stone --- srb. stena (hill)
verification --- srb. vera (faith)
creep --- srb. akrep (a freak)
allow --- srb. alaliti (to give)
arrogant --- srb. rogat (horned)
wassail --- srb. veselje
vary --- srb. varljiv
land/lend --- srb. ledina
bestial --- srb. besan (furious)
beaten --- srb. prebijen
bungler --- srb. bangav
turf --- srb. trava
weeping --- srb. vapaj
check --- srb. čačkati, read chachkati (to poke around)
chaste --- srb. čast, read chast
thunder --- srb. tandrkati (to bang)
path --- srb. put
part --- srb. parče, read parche
dive --- srb. daviti se (to drown)
dim --- srb. dim
decent --- dostojan
and then this >
recite --- srb. recitovati
verve --- srb. vreva (bustle)
deep --- srb. dubok
source --- srb. srce (heart), srž (core)
yes --- srb. jes (read yes)
barn --- srb. ambar
I am --- srb. Ja sam (read ya sam)
swinery --- srb. svinjac
stomach -- srb. stomak
plot --- srb. plot (fence)
perplate --- srb. preplitati
place --- srb. plac
plate --- srb. plato
batch --- sr. bačva, read bacva
acumulation --- srb. gomila (same sound)
bush, ambush --- srb. žbun
also this >
predestined --- srb. predodredjen (directly same meaning as English counterpart)
gaia --- srb. gajiti (to grow, to cultivate)
berry --- srb. brati (to pick)
dick --- srb. dika (a man to be proud of, a proud one, capable man, there are female songs about their man `dika`, or mother can say `dika` for her son or even daughter, superlative form of `dika` is `dicina` read dichina- its kind of big dika, super dika)
So, tell me, where did I fail to be on topic? English language is no strange to me. Wherever I look I read deeper meaning of English word and SHOW to you here Serbian background of the word. After all, Tolkien spoke the same.