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Originally Posted by Errigal
I read elsewhere on the web that "medved" means bear and can be translated literally to mean "honey expert" ("med" meaning "honey" and "ved" meaning "the one who knows"), Is that true?
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Very likely, but isn't that "honey eater"?
Medved is the slavic name for the tabooed word "bear". "Bear" is also a germanic (
bär) tabooed form, it litteraly means "the brown one".