Re: Dust-sucker [Was: Re: Armenian, Sumerian, Burushaski, and Turkic languages]

On Jun 25, 11:16 am, "Reinhold (Rey) Aman" <a...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Artur Jachacy wrote:
Paul J Kriha wrote:
Joachim Pense <s...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Is that the tiny room in which we store our Staubsauger? Joachim

Yes, the hoovers.
Or luxes, beyond your eastern borders.

What exactly do you mean by that last remark?

"Nothing sucks like an Electrolux."

In the 1960s, the Swedish Electrolux company successfully marketed
vacuums in the United Kingdom with the slogan "Nothing sucks like an
Electrolux." British consumers took the slogan literally because
"sucks" as a term of disparagement is strictly an Americanism.

Source & more info at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrolux

~~~ Reinhold (Rey) Aman ~~~

And English suck is related to Serbian sisa (teat), sika (teat, woman
breast) and verb sisati (suck);

Some of the Serbian folk-etymologists believe that the name Deutsche-n
(Dutch) has been adopted according to the Serbian personal name
Doychin (derived from the Serbian noun dojka /breast, teat/) and the
verb doyiti (breast-feed).

Serbian name Doychin has the same meaning as other Serb. words like
'doyenche' (baby), dechak/dyechak (boy) and dete/diyete (child). They
also say that dete or dijete is an equivalent to the name of Teutons
and that the Illyrian queen Teuta bore the Serbian female form of the
masculine name Doychin/Dyechak/Dijete. ;-)

DV

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