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Article #1051Re: New ISO country codes
From: Andrej Brodnik (Andy)
Date: Tue, 05 May 1992 23:41
Date: Tue, 05 May 1992 23:41
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In article <1992May5.132944.20236@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu>, dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu (Dimitri Vulis, CUNY GC Math) writes:
> In article <1992Apr26.225050.3546@watdragon.waterloo.edu>, abrodnik@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) writes:
> >In article <1992Apr26.010634.2687@timessqr.gc.cuny.edu> dlv@cunyvms1.gc.cuny.edu writes:
> >>Remark 1. 'Bela' in 'Belarus' actually stands for 'free'. (Has to do with
> >>serfdom, Lithuanian domination, etc).
> >
> >Interesting. Can you give us a bit more background. Namely what is a
> >root of this word. As far as I know "bela" or "belo" or "bjelo" ... in
> >most of Slavic languages means "white".
>
> (I'll comment on the other follow-up at the same time.)
> 1. Bel- / Bil- / Byal- / B{\yat')l- ... does mean 'White' in many Slavic
> languages. I'm impressed with your knowdlege of 'most' of them :).
No problems here. happened to be that my first language is Slovene.-)
> However in the name 'Belarus', it originally meant 'free'.
I'm sorry to bother you so much. But can you provide us any other
etymological or other explanation of this, please?
Regarding three colours in Russian flag. A simple question, how old is
this flag? When did it appear for the first time?
Andrej
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