Interesting. Butter + Schmetten/смета́на • (smetána) probably still come from be... | Hacker News

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singularity2001 on June 8, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age

Interesting.

Butter + Schmetten/смета́на • (smetána) probably still come from beat:schmettern<>smith and or smeltan:smelt.

Where do Schmeissfliege (blowfly) and Schmalz(molten fat) sit? ;)

singularity2001 on June 8, 2017 [–]

Or maybe not: βούτῡρον (boútūron, “cow cheese”), compound of βοῦς (boûs, “ox, cow”) and τῡρός (tūrós, “cheese”). tūrós <> Taurus = cow hmmm

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