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Is slony some sort of language joke? Slon is czech (probably slavic in general) for elephant. (which may be actually derived from the turkish aslan, for lion,
by cenamus 2y ago
Is slony some sort of language joke? Slon is czech (probably slavic in general) for elephant.
(which may be actually derived from the turkish aslan, for lion, but somehow the animal got mixed up)
- newaccount74 2y agoI think so. The PostgreSQL logo is an elephant, and the community calls him "Slonik", probably derived from the Russian word for elephant. There is also a node.js driver that is called "slonik"
- anticensor 2y agoNot really, the older form of Turkish aslan is actually arslan.
- cenamus 2y agoI just read that some time ago https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/slon%D1%8A#Etymology_1 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/s...