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		hprotagonist on Feb 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Taboo language turned the wolf into a monster is it “knows” or “eats” or “finds”? i’ve heard all three

paleotrope on Feb 14, 2020 | [–]

"Know" in the biblical sense.

0xBABAD00C on Feb 14, 2020 | [–]

ved = 'know' in Slavic, comes from this PIE root: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur...

nbabitskiy on Feb 14, 2020 | [–]

Literally the same source suggests that "honey-eater" is a folk etymology, probably false: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/m...

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