Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees

Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by portofcall on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:29PM (#16624817)

I’ve never heard of a noa-name, and my attempts to Google frustratingly return only meanings of the name Noa. Do you have any good starting points for me to learn about this? It’s so very up my alley, and I’d love to learn more.

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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by scrumper on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:42PM (#16624894)

'Noa' is a Polynesian term apparently; basically it's the opposite of 'taboo' (also Polynesian.)

It's not on the face of it a very confidence-inspiring source, but r/askhistorians is as good as Reddit gets, and the poster here wrote an actual book on the subject. Give it a read: https://thingsonreddit.com/things/13812/comments/

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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by portofcall on Monday March 19, 2018 @08:45PM (#16624900)

I love /r/askhistorians, they have fantastic contributions and moderation. Thanks very much for this.

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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by henrikschroder on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:20PM (#16625109)

Yeah, I tried a quick googling for it as well, and got buried in resources about the name Noah instead.

I thought it would be more wide-spread, but there's wikipedia pages for it in Swedish, Norwegian and Iceland at least:

https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noaord

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Re:Lithuanian is riddled with references to bees by portofcall on Monday March 19, 2018 @09:22PM (#16625126)

Fortunately Google translate does a good job with that, thanks very much. I really love learning about new quirks of language.

I’ve read it now, and that’s so cool. It also cam with some good references I’m going to get into now. Thanks again. :)

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