by "Arch Duke Maxyenko, Shit Talk Extraordinaire" (arch-duke-maxyenko)
Published 11/17/2017 at 18:31

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"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
11/17/2017 at 19:03, STARS: 0

Interesting. When I was taking Russian, I was told the word for “German” translates to “mute”. As in people who can’t talk, because they don’t speak Russian. It’s almost the same world in Polish.

"InFierority Complex" (lanciere)
11/17/2017 at 19:12, STARS: 1

It’s fairly common in a lot of the Slavic languages I think.

"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
11/17/2017 at 19:54, STARS: 0

Indeed. Nemec, Nemeth, Nimitz... all those surnames have the same origin!

"AuthiCooper1300" (rexrod)
11/17/2017 at 19:56, STARS: 0

“Mute” and “dumb” are synonyms in quite a few languages, and by extension can mean “foreign” or “foreigner” in some. Have a look at the origin of “barbarian”. It is a very similar phenomenon:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/barbarian

"gogmorgo - rowing gears in a Grand Cherokee" (gogmorgo)
11/17/2017 at 21:00, STARS: 0

Yeah, a lot of Slavic languages are very similar.