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Where does “mjadwjeź” come from?

mjadwjeź (Lower Sorbian) comes from Proto-Slavic medvědь, from Proto-Slavic medu-ēdis.

mjadwjeź (Lower Sorbian): bear

Definitions

  1. bear

Ancestry of “mjadwjeź”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Slavicmedvědьbear
2Proto-Slavicmedu-ēdis—
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