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fucked up how they called this thing the wild beast (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 11 months ago by lagomorph to c/196

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[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 15 points 11 months ago

Kinda. Although most people would say "dier" for animal in Afrikaans. Beest could be related to "bees" which is singular for cattle. "Beeste" for the plural. That's what I always thought... That the name was more akin to "wild cattle" than "wild beast".

But I'm not a real animalnameologist so...