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If you don't mind my asking: what word is that? I'm only familiar with žena (I speak some Croatian but not enough to know archaisms)

• Keyframe 9y ago
  Kobieta, kobila in croatian meaning mare.
  • pvg 9y ago
    That's not the same word. https://goo.gl/7ZZTrd https://goo.gl/7ZZTrd
    • Keyframe 9y ago
      I don't know russian and can't read most of that anyways. Here's for polish: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kobieta https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kobieta and it's definitely mare in croatian, and via that same in all languages in the region since we share large volume of vocabulary.
      • pvg 9y ago
        You should check in a real etymological dictionary. It's not entirely clear what the origins of 'kobieta' are whereas those of 'mare' are fairly well understood - it helps that it's practically universal in all slavic languages. There are lots of etymological mysteries out there, even surrounding very common words. It's fun to try but they generally don't get resolved by thinking of a somewhat similar-sounding word in a related language and glancing at wiktionary.
  • idlewords 9y ago
    The equivalent word for mare is kobyła in Polish. It's unrelated to kobieta.