Message from @KoalaBear
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For an American I know a shitload about non-western Europe.
Give me place names and I'll try and disect
Easy one; Ukraine.
You probably know it already
You don't have to be a slavist to know
I’m seeing if you do, though.
Ukraine is an anglophied version of Ukrajina which means "border land"
Literally meaning in the border land
There you go.
Krajina means borderland but Kraj means land but in polish it's country
Uh, ~~Swedistan~~ Sweden.
In swedish it's sverige
Wait hold on
I only specialise in slavic places
Maybe I can pull out a slavic meaning
That’s alright.
Hold on
S(lo)venska
They did speak roughly the same vandal language
and again the slavic -ska thing
Jeg kopjeter en stol i paris (norwegian)
Jaz sem kupil en stol v parizu (slovene)
Remarkable isn't it
Damn.
yeah
That’s more similar than I’d ever think Swedish and Slovenian would be.
Or swedish;
Jag kopjer en stol i Paris
Moving on,
Belarus, then Russia
Oh
White russia
Probably because of the snow
Russia?
Means "land of the red haired people"
Rossi meaning red
Rossia
Russia
Okay, Bulgaria
Actually the russians still call themselfs "Rossia"
Bulgar-land