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Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two... by Keyframe on Saturday January 13, 2018 @10:14PM (#16142643)
Kobieta, kobila in croatian meaning mare.
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two... by pvg on Sunday January 14, 2018 @02:14AM (#16143199)
That's not the same word. https://goo.gl/7ZZTrd
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two... by Keyframe on Sunday January 14, 2018 @04:22PM (#16146561)
I don't know russian and can't read most of that anyways. Here's for polish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kobieta and it's definitely mare in croatian, and via that same in all languages in the region since we share large volume of vocabulary.
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two... by pvg on Sunday January 14, 2018 @05:13PM (#16146801)
You should check in a real etymological dictionary. It's not entirely clear what the origins of 'kobieta' are whereas those of 'mare' are fairly well understood - it helps that it's practically universal in all slavic languages. There are lots of etymological mysteries out there, even surrounding very common words. It's fun to try but they generally don't get resolved by thinking of a somewhat similar-sounding word in a related language and glancing at wiktionary.
Re:Tea if by sea, cha if by land: Why the world only has two... by idlewords on Sunday January 14, 2018 @11:04PM (#16148407)
The equivalent word for mare is kobyła in Polish. It's unrelated to kobieta.