NÃO PARE
ENTRE O PORTÃO
FECHAMENTO AUTOMÁTICO
Exatamente nesta configuração está escrito um anúncio pregado a um portão automático que acabei de ver. Demorei-me um pouco a entender. Primeiro imaginei que o entre daí fosse do verbo entrar, o que não me fez sentido. Em seguida compreendi que se trata da preposição entre e que a mensagem deve ser lida assim: Não pare entre o portão. Fechamento automático. Não pare entre o portão? Para mim entre exige outro termo: entre X e Y, ou pelo menos uma palavra no plural: ele escondeu-se entre as folhas. Acho que o que se pretendeu escrever foi: Não pare com o/embaixo do portão levantado/elevado/acionado. Fechamento automático.
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 20, 2014
Galina 'Red' Reznikov
That's the name of a Russian character played by an American actress in Orange is the New Black. But a real Russian woman would have to be called Reznikova (Резникова), as the surname suffix -ov gets the ending a in the feminine. Reznikov (Резников) is derived from reznik (резник), stress on the first syllable, a word meaning chisel, engraver, carver in Russian. Czech has a cognate, řezník, "butcher". Both the Czech and the Russian word have to do with cutting, řezat in Czech, rezať (резать) in Russian.
Talking about butchers, Wikipedia has some interesting information on the names Reznik, Reznikov and variations: В некоторых местностях Украины этим словом называли любого мясника, не обязательно еврейского — отсюда русские и украинские фамилии, обыкновенно в вариантах «Резниченко» и «Резников».
That is: In some Ukrainian localities this word was used to refer to any butcher, not necessarily a Jew (as they write above that the last names Reznik, Reznikov and variations refer to a person performing an animal ritual slaughter, a shoichet). That gave rise to the Russian and Ukrainian surname, usually in the variants Reznichenko and Reznikov.
The word they use for butcher, myasnik, is a cognate of Slovak mäsiar, with the same meaning, derived from Slovak mäso (Czech maso, Polish mięso, Russian myaso - мясо, and similar words in all other Slavic languages) all meaning meat or flesh.
Talking about butchers, Wikipedia has some interesting information on the names Reznik, Reznikov and variations: В некоторых местностях Украины этим словом называли любого мясника, не обязательно еврейского — отсюда русские и украинские фамилии, обыкновенно в вариантах «Резниченко» и «Резников».
That is: In some Ukrainian localities this word was used to refer to any butcher, not necessarily a Jew (as they write above that the last names Reznik, Reznikov and variations refer to a person performing an animal ritual slaughter, a shoichet). That gave rise to the Russian and Ukrainian surname, usually in the variants Reznichenko and Reznikov.
The word they use for butcher, myasnik, is a cognate of Slovak mäsiar, with the same meaning, derived from Slovak mäso (Czech maso, Polish mięso, Russian myaso - мясо, and similar words in all other Slavic languages) all meaning meat or flesh.
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