Re: VMs: azhor shtsheey valsch vbrey

["john stojko" <oko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mr. Vabar,
below is given definition for the word POZOR.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mart Vabar" <mesinik@xxxxxx>
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Sent: Friday, December 26, 2003 5:00 AM
Subject: Re: VMs: azhor shtsheey valsch vbrey


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>
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, john stojko wrote:
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> > From: "Mart Vabar" <mesinik@xxxxxx>
> > To: <vms-list@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2003 12:03 PM
> > > > and I do not have right here proposals for "aror/azhor"
> > > except, in Russian, pozor (read: "pazoor"; cut in parts: (po)azor -
"po"
> > > is a prefix) means "shame", "defacement", "disgrace"
>
>
> > In Ukrainian "POZOR" is defined as;
> >          pozor = disgrace, shame, scandal, indecent
> > and  pazoor when 'oo' is pronounced as double 'o' in room or root
> >        pazoor = claw, nail
>
>
> but could you tell, from where come these words?
> Original Slavic roots?
> Some Turk or Baltic dialect?
> (I can tell, probably nothing to do with Finno-Ugric or Ural languages)
>
In Ukrainian the word POZOR is defined as;
The word consists from two words,
Po = after
ZOR = to perceive by the eye, vision, sight ets.
Pozor = after seeing, after sight
Hence the word Po suggests that the judgement is made after
the observed fact not before.

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