Re: [tied] Re: slavic "voda"

From: alex
Message: 24483
Date: 2003-07-13

g wrote:
> So, for your Romanian ears "voda" in Cernavoda is
> also a coincidence, since, if you have no knowledge
> of a Slavic language whatever, you'll never know
> that "voda" in Cernavoda is a "water" (which inci-
> dentally or not is "black," but it doesn't matter
> in this context anyway). In the same conditions,
> you won't know that <votca> or <vodca> in your
> glass mean "Wässerchen". Stimmt's, Väterchen? :)
>
>> Alex
>
> George

Aham. Ich bin nur neugierig wie unseren verehrten Slavisten hier die
Sache mit 'vojevoda' sehen.