Re: Poland and Lithuania

On Mar 27, 3:20 am, Tadas Blinda <tadas.bli...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 27, 10:54 am, Dmitry <dmitrijsfedot...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

'Luki' means 'bowed' (also another borrowed word from Baltic to Savic).  A 'bow' is a 'lukis' in Baltic.

'Velilikie Luki ' in russian translates to 'Great Bend.'  

Originally it was just called 'Luki' (Compare to *Bend* Oregon)
Indeed the city arms exhibits three curved bows.
Later after some russkie princeling stole it, they added the
'Velilikie' to the city's name meaning 'great'.

In modern russian it's just "Great Onions" :-)

It is interesting that Russian word for bow and onion is the same.  It
would be down to linguists to explain.....

Here's a linguist and he's about to explain ... ☺

Russian лук (luk) is related to English 'leek' and it's just a
coincidence that it now looks the same as another word that means
'bow'.  The latter word comes from Lithuanian 'lankas', from 'lenkti',
which means 'to bend'.

This makes sense.

'Leek' in Russian is лук-порей. ('Leek' is 'puras' in Lithuanian.)  I
love leek and potato soup.  I make it with extra bits of cabbage and
mushroom.  C'est délicieux.

My leeks were ready at the end of January and I'm still harvesting
them. I use them in soups and raw in salads. They are such a good
survivers. We had very cold winter this year, leeks were completely
covered with snow for several weeks and kept growing as if nothing
happened. Great vegetable!

I always found it amusing that Lithuanian svogūnas which means onion
also means bulb.  To me "Narcizai auga iš svogūnėlių" sounds like
"Daffodils grow from little onions." ☺

I suppose it makes sense as bulbs look the same as onions -))

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