{"id":6497,"date":"2016-05-27T05:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-27T05:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2016-05-27T05:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T05:11:00","slug":"rusty-the-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/?p=6497","title":{"rendered":"Rusty the Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thing about the Slavic word for bear is that it has been universally etymologically\u00a0explained as meaning &#8220;honey eater&#8221;. \u00a0Honey = med; vjed = to eat out.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rust.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6499\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6499 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rust.jpg?resize=625%2C281\" alt=\"rust\" width=\"625\" height=\"281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rust.jpg?w=683&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rust.jpg?resize=300%2C135&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rust.jpg?resize=624%2C280&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a>Another interesting thing about the Slavic words for bears is that they are of roughly two types. \u00a0Most begin with an &#8220;m&#8221; whereas the Polish version begins with an &#8220;n&#8221;. \u00a0Thus we have, e.g.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>medvjed &#8211; in Croatian, but<\/li>\n<li>nied\u017awied\u017a &#8211; in Polish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since miod in Polish is much the same as med (or mead for that matter) but the bear name has in Polish the first letter &#8220;n&#8221;, it seems that the &#8220;m&#8221; version is the &#8220;correct&#8221; or, at least, the older one and that the Polish &#8220;m&#8221; became an\u00a0&#8220;n&#8221; over time.<\/p>\n<p>Yet\u00a0another interesting thing is that continental European brown bears are, well, brown.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we note this interesting translation from a dictionary put together by Oskar Priese in 1890:<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rost.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6498\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6498\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rost.jpg?resize=300%2C68\" alt=\"rost\" width=\"300\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rost.jpg?resize=300%2C68&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.jassa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rost.jpg?w=570&amp;ssl=1 570w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Copyright \u00a92016 jassa.org All Rights Reserved<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thing about the Slavic word for bear is that it has been universally etymologically\u00a0explained as meaning &#8220;honey eater&#8221;. \u00a0Honey = med; vjed = to eat out.Another interesting thing about the Slavic words for bears is that they are of roughly two types. \u00a0Most begin with an &#8220;m&#8221; whereas the Polish version begins with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-origins"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6500,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6497\/revisions\/6500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jassa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}