From: Petusek
Message: 35361
Date: 2004-12-07
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From: "g" <st-george@...>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 11:39 AM
Subject: [tied] Budvar [Re: var-oS]
>> George, a great example, Budvar is an acronym of "Bude^jovicky'
>> pivovar",
>> i.e. "The Bude^jovice Brewery", where "pivo-" means "beer" and "var"
>> means
>> "to boil" (< IE *wer- , as I've metioned), i.e. also "to brew".
>
>Hehe, indeed "great." Thank you, I learnt something new. (It could be
>that I never paid real attention to the tags (in German) on the bottles
>sold here, where Budvar might be translated as "Budweiser Bräu" or
>"Budweiser Brauerei").
>
>(BTW, off-topic: does Budvar belong to the South-African giant SAB
>Miller?)
George
It's always useful to know German counterparts, translations, as they're -
in most cases - made by Czechs themselves. (And yes, I think SAB bought
Budvar a few years ago, but visit http://www.budvar.cz/ to find it out
yourself)
To see how productive this /-var/ is, we could mention other Czech breweries
(off-topic, again, I'm sorry for that: Ostravar http://www.ostravar.cz/; but
this beer prooves that /-var/ is no warranty of quality - many breweries
lack this component and are much better than Ostravar, like other wonderful
Czech breweries Plzen^sky' Prazdroj:
http://www.pilsnerurquell.cz/agecheck.html or http://www.pilsnerurquell.com/
and Radegast (Radhos^t'): http://www.radegast.cz/, which is a member of the
Pilsner Urquell Group)
Petusek