FW: [SEELANGS] pronun. of "Medvedev" (cont.)

[Robert A. Rothstein]

Jerry Katsell wrote:
> Of course, on the morphemic level, the poor beast can no longer "know
> the honey"
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He doesn't have to; he only needs to eat the honey. Medved' < med + ŭ + 
ěd, with the last root meaning "eat" and the whole word apparently a 
substitute for the original Indo-European word for "bear," which had 
become taboo.

Bob Rothstein

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