Message from @KoalaBear
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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
Check this out;
Jeg kopjeter en stol i paris (norwegian)
Jaz sem kupil en stol v parizu (slovene)
Remarkable isn't it
Damn.
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
Want the origin of bulgar itself orrr
Nah, I already know.
Let me hear
Migration south of the Danube, fighting the Byzantines n’ shit, getting oppressed by the Ottomans, Independence, Balkan Wars, WWI + WW2, Communist dictatorship then here we are now.