5. "RE: Our Witches at War Ep. 1"
In response to message #4
>>MA ... QUETTE - Sanya started to write MAKET, which is Orussian >>for "dummy", until it occurred to her that that wouldn't make much >>sense as a precaution for Gallian civilians. Fortunately, the Gallic >>equivalent starts with the same letters (and by an odd coincidence, >>MAKET is spelled with letters that look the same in the Cyrillic and >>Roman alphabets). > >Does it mean "idiot" as well as "mannequin" like in English?
Not that I know of; AFAIK it only connotes "model", "mockup", that kind of thing.
>Also, the Russian is almost certainly a loanword from the French/Gallic.
Very possibly. French was the de facto language of the pre-Soviet Russian nobility, and thus government, for quite a long time. It will naturally have left behind a lot of bits and bobs.
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