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Standing Wolf

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Russian word?
« on: January 06, 2010, 08:56:14 PM »
Is "snoichi" a Russian word, and if so, what does it mean? It's been taking up mental space several days now.

Thanks, eh, Russian speakers?
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #1 on: January 06, 2010, 09:26:57 PM »
"Son-in-law"?
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #2 on: January 07, 2010, 09:09:26 AM »
Russian-English online dictionary = no results found. 
Doesn't look like russian writing , so probably going by sound.

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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #3 on: January 07, 2010, 03:10:11 PM »
Certainly not Cyrillic, so it's phonetic. One possible way to write something similar in Russian is cнохá, which my dictionary says means "daughter-in-law." I don't remember enough Russian to change the gender, so I'm guessing rather wildly.
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #4 on: January 07, 2010, 04:29:29 PM »
It might actually be Japanese.
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #5 on: January 07, 2010, 05:11:44 PM »
слово к вашей мати.   :lol:

snoichi doesn't exist in Japanese.  No such thing as "s".  You can have sa, shi, su, se and so, but not just s.

"no" is a possessive modifier.

"ichi" means one.

The closest thing I can come up with would be sunoichi, with the "su" being abbreviated when spoken as is common.

something "noichi" would roughly translate as first something, but that isn't correct.  You use "hitotsu" to indicate first.  Or a goofy counting system  like ikka, ippon, issatsu (i-something depending on the type of thing you are counting).

su means sandbank, nest, rookery, breeding place, beehive, cobweb, or vinegar.

None of it makes sense put together, so I doubt it's japanese.
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #6 on: January 07, 2010, 08:38:12 PM »
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Russian-English online dictionary = no results found.

Tell me more, please?
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #7 on: January 07, 2010, 09:48:28 PM »
Most any language you want here ...

http://www.freelang.net/
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #8 on: January 07, 2010, 10:43:33 PM »
You still have to know how to spell it in Cyrillic before you can look it up.
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #9 on: January 07, 2010, 11:30:15 PM »
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Russian-English online dictionary = no results found.

Tell me more, please?

Put in search any language translation, foreign, medical or other, dictionary type you want to look up and see what choices they come up with.

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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #10 on: January 09, 2010, 09:50:23 AM »
Thanks, all!
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Re: Russian word?
« Reply #11 on: January 09, 2010, 11:19:52 AM »
I only know a few words of Russian...

dree-uh: cold

rova: hard

buckaroo: cowboy

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