The name of this colorless Russian spirit is a diminutive of the Russian word for "water", itself a colorless liquid
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THE RUSSIAN GOD  century, a third of the Russian Armywas ... cause the state budget itself was 'drunk' ... brake uid. ... use the name vodka for the alcohol .... bolstered the Russian Army's spirits. ... rived from wda, the Russian word for. water. (The addition of the letter k makes it diminutive.) ... however, is colorless, odorless, and taste.
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Show #4526 - Monday, April 19, 2004 - J! Archive  The name of this colorless Russian spirit is a diminutive of the Russian word for "water", itself a colorless liquid...
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Word Origins - jService.io - Jeopardy trivia question API  Clues for: Word Origins. Question, Answer, Value, Airdate.
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Vodka is Colorless, Odorless, Flavorless, and Amazing | The ...  Jul 10, 2014 ... That liquid nowhere near resembled the neutral grain spirits we drink today. ... vodkathe word most likely a diminutive of the Russian word for water, , or, ... All-Jesting Assembly, which devoted itself to mocking the Orthodox church. ... The author, a professor of Russian and Soviet history and a vodka...
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Vodka History, Developement and Origin: Gin and Vodka  ... the name stemming from the Russian word 'voda' meaning water or, as the ... so to mask these the distillers flavoured their spirits with fruit, herbs or spices.
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Beer History - Beer100.com  ... or a derivative, in the various dialects of Spanish and Portuguese, from Latin cerevisia. ... The Common Slavic *pivo, literally "beverage", is the word for beer in most Slavic ... Along came a man by the name of Charlie Mopps ... The Romans called their brew "cerevisia," from Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, and vis, Latin...
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samovars - Memidex dictionary/thesaurus  Definition: a metal urn with a spigot at the base; used in Russia to boil water for tea ... Russian samovar, literally "self-boiler", from sam "self" + varit "to boil",.
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The Vodka was Great (but the Meat was Rotten) - To favaro.net  Apr 2, 2011 ... the following phrase to translate into Russian: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. ... And what did he conclude from this observation? ..... Since the game involved pressing a button when you thought you could respond ..... Now, this was already a rather boring and frustrating job back in the old days...
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Vodka - Wikipedia  Vodka is a distilled beverage composed primarily of water and ethanol, sometimes with traces ... Since the 1890s, the standard Polish, Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, ... The name "vodka" is a diminutive form of the Slavic word voda (water), ... while the beverage was called gorzaka (from the Old Polish gorze meaning "to...
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20000-NAMES.COM: Ghost Names, Spirit Names, Soul Names ...  Here is a list of ghost and spirit names, and names mean soul. Bright spirits ... SKUDAKUMOOCHOOOWTE: Micmac word for the "Milky Way, the spirits' road." MALE: .... SPIRIDON (): Russian form of Greek Spyridon, meaning "spirit.
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Page 4  Columbia Daily Spectator 3 March 1936  Columbia ...  ... to some dishes bellywash for soup; belch water for a glass of seltzer; blood for ... Other names for water are Aqua pura, Chaser or Adam's Ale, City Cocktail, ... One on the city, One on the house, Potomac Phosphate, Tin roof, Eighty-one,...
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Borscht - Wikipedia  The Lithuanian language is the only one in the region which actually refers to it as 'cold borscht' (altibariai). In Belarusian it is known simply as khaladnik,...
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Free Flashcards about ISRAEL - StudyStack  Free flashcards to help memorize facts about ISRAEL. ... THE NAME OF THE ISRAELI DANCE MAYIM, MAYIM MEANS LIQUID, THIS LIQUID, WATER.
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80. Hydrargyrum (Mercury) - Elementymology & Elements Multidict  Dense liquid metal which has a high surface tension and will form a ... Mercury was already known in the Antiquity by Chinese and in India. ... it was named "liquid silver" (in English Quicksilver), which was translated into several languages:.
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Wine Glossary of Terms, Wine Dictionary, Wine Definitions, Wine ...  Wine Glossary Important Wine Terms ABC's of Wine Talk Wine Dictionary with ... This means the aromatic and other qualities in the wine are not available to the taster. .... Closed: The term is used to describe wines that are the opposite of open. ... They can smell like a wet dog or moldy newspaper. ... They are never heavy.
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Vodka Nation | The Weekly Standard  Aug 15, 2011 ... How the flavorless, colorless, odorless spirit became a billion-dollar business ... The largest liquor companies in the world haven't launched more than five ... let alone brand-specific concoctions such as a Grey Goose Cosmo or, as a ... and Russia's legendary vodka maker Pyotr Smirnov sent his bottles to...
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non-substantiality - SGI Library Online - The Soka Gakkai Dictionary ...  The Sanskrit shunya or shunyata means emptiness. Shunya also means "empty" and "empty of." It is the concept that things and phenomena have no fixed or...
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Definition of Vodka - Bar-None Drink Recipes  Various regions that produce vodka also are said to have come up with the word. In Russian, 'voda' stood to mean water, as did the Polish word 'woda'.
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"Coors drink from the Russian for ""winter""" crossword clue  Below you will be able to find the answer to "Coors drink from the Russian for ""winter""" crossword clue. ... "Beverage brand named from the Russian word for ""winter"""  Bygone Coors product  Clear bottled ... Clear malt beverage from Coors.
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