URL: http://www.svaboda.org/news/articles/2003/10/20031020141806.asp * Na jakoj movie razmaulali Mindouh dy inszyja naszy Vialikija kniazi? * What languages...
Is this sort of thing constructive? Considering the fact that the current Lithuanian Republic and the current Belarussian Republic were one country for half a...
I don't have to read this one to know what's in it: a creative attempt to claim that Mindaugas/Mendog was really Belarussian and not Lithuanian at all. Since...
From what I could manage to read (which, admittedly, was not the entire article), it basically claims that the language spoken was BelaRussian due to the fact...
... So why the heck do you comment if didn't even understand it? ... What the hell is that?! I heard about Belarusan Belarusian (pronounced "Be-la-rus-jan"). ...
Are you referring to the Pahonia (sp?). My apologies if I am misspelling the name. Unfortunately, I tried and could not get on the svabodo.org site to see the...
... It's spelled perfectly. :) ... http://www.svaboda.org/ with A! The two links that were sent previously were also to svabodA.org, it's just that Russian...
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sacredhearth
sacredhearth@...
Oct 24, 2003 8:56 pm
Yes, I tried svaboda with an "A" and that is definitely the Vytis with a classical Lorraine Cross on the shield rather than the traditional cross used by...
I think it is reasonable to assume that at least some of the Lithuanian grand dukes knew Belarussian. Several clearly knew German and Polish. But I have read...
Polish: Pogon litewski; Belarussian: [cognate with the Polish] Pahonia; Lithuanian [translated from the Polish]: Vytis, meaning "the pursuer." Kovas, you are...
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hearth
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Oct 25, 2003 1:49 am
Yes, they are both successors of the Grand Duchy, or as it is literally translated from the Lithuanian, the Grand High Kingdom of Lithuania. Just as both...
We know Jogailo adopted the PL/P/V arms subsequent to the Union of Krewa. These arms do not appear previously. This can be established by the record of seals...
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litva@...
Oct 25, 2003 10:26 am
Sat, 25 Oct 103 03:49 +0200 GMT hearth wrote to <litvania@yahoogroups.com>: I'm bery interesting in this title, formulated as Grand High Kingdom of Lithuania?...
... That wasn't what I wrote. My comments were in response to David's, where he claimed he did not even want to read the article. I was hoping he might go...
in Bielarusian there is the word "minac" or "paminac" for "remember, celebrate". Here we see the -min- Also there is the adjective -douha- (dovgo or dovho in...
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sacredhearth
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Oct 25, 2003 10:28 pm
?????????Your argument is good. It proves that modern Bielarus and Lithuanian are both Indo-european languages. But to prove that a name like Mindowg is...
The original name of the state necessarily predates 1588, since the Lithuania state is generally supposed to have come into being in the early years of the...
... From: Alexander Cajcyc To: litvania@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 2:58 PM Subject: RE: [litvania] LINK: The Language of the Grand Dukes ...
Kovas, I was wondering why you believed the patriarchal cross was used as a device of the Lithuanian princes before Lithuania's conversion to Christianity,...
?????????How interesting! "Remember" is _pomnitsya_ or _prygadvatsya_ in my Belarussian dictionary, _vspomynat_ in Russian. I was not able to find _minac_....
But still, we do not have any evidence of this state being called else but Bielarusian "Vielikoje kniazstvo Litovskoje" except Polish, Latin and other...
This forming of names was quite typical for pagan times, and several names from that time survived till now. P.e. the name of the first king of Polacak:...
... We have documents, where it is called in Lithuanian: Didela Kunegayksztite Letuwos (proclamation "Nro 12. nug Wiresnibes Didelos Kunegayksztites Letuwos,...
... These are all recognizably Slavic forms, made of of Slavic roots like mir and slav, which are quite different and distinct from the standard Lithuanian...
... Holy cow! The name that we, natives of Belarus, called ourselves for many-many centuries, until very recently (19th century) was Litvins. Litvins. And we...
... What this article lacks is chronology of WHEN the Belarussians called themselves "Litvins". And this was only at the ending phase of the GDL (as well as...
GET ME OFF THIS EMAILING LIST PLEASE ... http://www.lithuania.host.sk/varia/wladislaus1639.htm ... http://www.lithuania.host.sk/varia/wladislaus1641.htm ... ...
Only persons who are foolish enough to subscribe to the lamentable19th century ideology of linguistic nationalism would believe that the primary Lithuanian...
