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  2. Dziady - Wikipedia

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    The word "dziad" comes from the Proto-Slavic word *dědъ (pl. *dědi) meaning primarily "grandfather", "an old man with an honorable position in the family", "ancestor" and "old man". The second meaning is "spirit, demon" (compare Polish dziadzi (adjective) considered a euphemism from diabli (adjective of "devil"), Kashubian.

  3. 40 Unique Grandparent Names That Aren't Grandma and Grandpa - AOL

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    Pronounced "Bubbeh" or "Bubbee" and "Zaydeh" or "Zaydee," these are the Yiddish words for grandmother and grandfather. 3. Babcia and Dziadziu. From our Polish pals, you pronounce it bop-cha and ja ...

  4. List of English words of Polish origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a list English words of Polish origin, that is words used in the English language that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Polish. Several Polish words have entered English slang via Yiddish , brought by Ashkenazi Jews migrating from Poland to North America .

  5. Olaf - Wikipedia

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    Olaf or Olav (/ ˈ oʊ l ə f /, / ˈ oʊ l ɑː f /, or British / ˈ oʊ l æ f /; Old Norse: Áleifr, Ólafr, Óleifr, Anleifr) is a Dutch, Polish, Scandinavian and German given name.It is presumably of Proto-Norse origin, reconstructed as *Anu-laibaz, from anu "ancestor, grand-father" and laibaz "heirloom, descendant".

  6. Google Translate - Wikipedia

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    Google Translate is a multilingual neural machine translation service developed by Google to translate text, documents and websites from one language into another. It offers a website interface, a mobile app for Android and iOS, as well as an API that helps developers build browser extensions and software applications. [3]

  7. Indo-European vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Forms from modern Slavic languages or other Church Slavic dialects may occasionally be given in place of Old Church Slavonic. For English , a modern English cognate is given when it exists, along with the corresponding Old English form; otherwise, only an Old English form is given.

  8. Grandparent - Wikipedia

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    Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal.Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maximum of four genetic grandparents, eight genetic great-grandparents, sixteen genetic great-great-grandparents, thirty-two genetic great-great-great ...

  9. Polish names - Wikipedia

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    Like other Slavic languages, Polish has special feminine suffixes which were added to a woman's surname. A woman who was never married used her father's surname with the suffix -ówna or -'anka . A married woman or a widow used her husband's surname with the suffix -owa or -'ina / -'yna (the apostrophe means that the last consonant in the base ...