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fucked up how they called this thing the wild beast (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago by lagomorph@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] gentooer@programming.dev 30 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal

[–] veroxii@aussie.zone 15 points 9 months ago

Kinda. Although most people would say "dier" for animal in Afrikaans. Beest could be related to "bees" which is singular for cattle. "Beeste" for the plural. That's what I always thought... That the name was more akin to "wild cattle" than "wild beast".

But I'm not a real animalnameologist so...

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

O weird, it doesn't have that connotation for me. I am from Flanders tho, not the Netherlands.

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

That'll do it