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[Surname] Re: Pivas
by Jim Young (guest)
10/2/2005, 5:55 AM
in reply to a message by Mandi
Could it be something to do with beer? A brewer? A boozer? Pivo is the Russian for beer, and Pivar means "brewer". Piwo is the Polish for beer, and there is a Polish surname, Piwnik, which means either a brewer or a drinker of beer, I forget which. What is the Serbo-Croat for beer?
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- menke
10/3/2005, 4:16 AM
the dictionary says in Croatian beer is "piva" or "pivo" and brewer is "pivar". it doesn't know the word "pivas".
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- ADT
10/2/2005, 1:19 PM
"Piwo is the Polish for beer, and there is a Polish surname, Piwnik, which means either a brewer or a drinker of beer, I forget which."It would be brewer.
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