Message from @KoalaBear

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2018-04-18 21:40:04 UTC  

Easy one; Ukraine.

2018-04-18 21:40:19 UTC  

You probably know it already

2018-04-18 21:40:32 UTC  

You don't have to be a slavist to know

2018-04-18 21:40:40 UTC  

I’m seeing if you do, though.

2018-04-18 21:41:06 UTC  

Ukraine is an anglophied version of Ukrajina which means "border land"

2018-04-18 21:41:16 UTC  

Literally meaning in the border land

2018-04-18 21:41:26 UTC  

There you go.

2018-04-18 21:41:42 UTC  

Krajina means borderland but Kraj means land but in polish it's country

2018-04-18 21:41:53 UTC  

Uh, ~~Swedistan~~ Sweden.

2018-04-18 21:42:07 UTC  

In swedish it's sverige

2018-04-18 21:42:11 UTC  

Wait hold on

2018-04-18 21:42:25 UTC  

I only specialise in slavic places

2018-04-18 21:42:36 UTC  

Maybe I can pull out a slavic meaning

2018-04-18 21:42:37 UTC  

That’s alright.

2018-04-18 21:42:39 UTC  

Hold on

2018-04-18 21:42:46 UTC  

S(lo)venska

2018-04-18 21:43:02 UTC  

They did speak roughly the same vandal language

2018-04-18 21:43:16 UTC  

and again the slavic -ska thing

2018-04-18 21:43:31 UTC  

Check this out;

2018-04-18 21:44:00 UTC  

Jeg kopjeter en stol i paris (norwegian)
Jaz sem kupil en stol v parizu (slovene)

2018-04-18 21:44:08 UTC  

Remarkable isn't it

2018-04-18 21:44:15 UTC  

Damn.

2018-04-18 21:44:20 UTC  

yeah

2018-04-18 21:44:37 UTC  

That’s more similar than I’d ever think Swedish and Slovenian would be.

2018-04-18 21:44:40 UTC  

Or swedish;

2018-04-18 21:44:49 UTC  

Jag kopjer en stol i Paris

2018-04-18 21:45:04 UTC  

Moving on,

2018-04-18 21:45:14 UTC  

Belarus, then Russia

2018-04-18 21:45:19 UTC  

Oh

2018-04-18 21:45:21 UTC  

White russia

2018-04-18 21:45:27 UTC  

Probably because of the snow

2018-04-18 21:45:36 UTC  

Russia?

2018-04-18 21:45:53 UTC  

Means "land of the red haired people"

2018-04-18 21:45:59 UTC  

Rossi meaning red

2018-04-18 21:46:02 UTC  

Rossia

2018-04-18 21:46:03 UTC  

Russia

2018-04-18 21:46:27 UTC  

Okay, Bulgaria

2018-04-18 21:46:34 UTC  

Actually the russians still call themselfs "Rossia"

2018-04-18 21:46:41 UTC  

Bulgar-land

2018-04-18 21:46:52 UTC  

Want the origin of bulgar itself orrr

2018-04-18 21:47:00 UTC  

Nah, I already know.