Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016)

Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by rplnt on Monday May 28, 2018 @05:54AM (#17171570)

Why do Slavic languages, Czech and Slovak at least (not similar at all), have these differences as well? Was it also a foreign influence?

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by BerislavLopac on Monday May 28, 2018 @06:51AM (#17171737)

Which "these" differences exactly?

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by 0ld on Monday May 28, 2018 @07:14AM (#17171815)

The non-related words for ox, cow and beef. I can confirm the same at least in Czech, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian. But not in, say, Polish (where 'beef' has its root from 'ox')

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by konart on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:43AM (#17172109)

In russian (and most likely some other slavic langauges) beef ("говядина") is meat of any cattle because it comes from anchient-russian "говядо" which literally means "cattle".

Pretty much same for ox - from the old form of "big" "великий" - big animal.

Cow "корова" most likely comes from protoslavic korva and most likely inherited from ancient-indian "carvati" - "chewing".

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Re:Why “children,” not “childs”? (2016) by Markoff on Monday May 28, 2018 @08:25AM (#17172044)

i always thought it's too disassociate the actual animal from meat you are eating to make it anonymous, it's much easier to eat beef than dead cow's meat

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