Help with three Slovak songs
Jan Zielinski
zielinski at GMX.CH
Thu Nov 10 19:02:38 UTC 2011
On 2011-11-10 18:23, R. M. Cleminson wrote:
> I would tentatively connect obranclovať with Hungarian abroncs, which means, among other things, a hoop for a skirt.
>
> The Hungarian word is of course a loan-word from Slavonic obrǫčĭ (preserving the nasal vowel!), which continued to exist in Slovak (and other languages), giving us the modern obruč.
>
And, quite vividly, in vulgar Polish "brandzlować" (to masturbate, to
give a hand-job).
Jan Zielinski
Berne
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