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<\/a><\/p>\nThus, we have:<\/p>\n
bar\u0107<\/b><\/em><\/span>\u00a0– a forest beehive – and who likes forest beehive honey?<\/p>\n bartnik <\/strong><\/i><\/span>– a beekeeper.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n \u2009bar\u0142\u00f3g <\/b><\/em><\/span>– a sleeping den – especially of a bear (in fact, the Hungarians have a Slavic borrowing \u2009<\/b>medve\u00a0<\/i>barlaga<\/i><\/strong> where medve<\/em> refers to medved<\/em><\/strong>, that is, a bear). \u00a0What is interesting is that the name can be easily divided into a “bear’s sleeping den” if one is willing to accept that “bar” refers to a “bear”. Thus, the\u00a0\u0142\u00f3g<\/em><\/strong> is simply a reference to\u00a0\u0142\u00f3\u017ce<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0that is bed, that is the modern\u00a0\u0142\u00f3\u017cko<\/em><\/strong> either of which comes from “lying down” – compare the German liegen <\/em><\/strong>with the Polish le\u017ce\u0107<\/em><\/strong>. One of the most well known and obvious Slavic transformations is the g<\/strong><\/em> >\u00a0\u017c<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n What connects all these words is the “bear”. \u00a0The odd thing is that these words are not borrowings from Germanic languages – they appear to be extremely old and are present, in one way or another, in most Slavic languages.<\/p>\n And, as I wrote before, although the East Slavic\u00a0medved<\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>may seem to be the original form from which the Polish nied\u017awied\u017a <\/em><\/strong>is derived, even this is not clear. Thus, we have the Gothic\u00a0nidva<\/strong> meaning “rust”.<\/em><\/p>\n