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

submitted 8 months ago by lagomorph@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[-] veroxii@aussie.zone 15 points 8 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...