Re: About the name Rasputin...

On Jan 31, 9:30 pm, "Heidi Graw" <h...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Dušan Vukotić" <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Jan 31, 7:14 pm, António Marques <m...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Dušan Vukotić wrote:
The other part of Ras-putin’s name comes from the noun PUT (road,
path!).
Antonio worte:
I wonder if that's where portuguese puta 'whore' comes from as well.
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Dusan wrote:
Puta is whore in spanish. Putana - *** or prostitute in Italian. Also
I think this word is used as "***" or "bitch" in Spain. In Serbian
there are words 'putenost' (sensuality), 'putena' (carnal) and verb
'podati se' (woman who indulges in sexual activitiy).

...and in German a Pute is a turkey. ;-)

After "democratization" and "westernization", Serbia and other East-
European countries are full of whores standing alongside the roads
(Serb. put, puta). ;-)

Ah...so an abundance of turkeys lined up alongside the roads??? ;-)

Ras-putin...King of the Turkeys!

Hmmmm....any chances Ras-putin could be related to the turkish language?

Take care,
Heidi


This is interesting! It seems we could compare Serbian 'patka' (pata
duck) with german Pute. If we say Puthahn it sounds close to Serb.
patak (drake) while the English 'duck' looks like to be a shortened
'pa-tak'! ;-)

DV

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