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aquadrop
on March 20, 2018
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Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees
I think slavic version is "the one who knows where the honey is" or "the one who controls the honey"
mormegil
on March 20, 2018
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Nope, that is a folk etymology, see
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic...
aquadrop
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Hm, interesting, always thought it was from parts 'med' and 'ved'. Though Ukrainian's 'vedmed' kinda contradicts suggestion that first part it 'medv'. Maybe it started some long time ago with 'honey eater' and then transitioned...
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