Timeline for Why is Drinfeld's Zastava space called Zastava?
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| Jan 10, 2011 at 10:49 | vote | accept | Yuji Tachikawa | ||
| Jan 9, 2011 at 18:12 | answer | added | ivan mirkovic | timeline score: 33 | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 15:06 | vote | accept | Yuji Tachikawa | ||
| Jan 10, 2011 at 10:49 | |||||
| Dec 30, 2010 at 15:05 | answer | added | user3775 | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 14:16 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | Yuji, it's too late to blame translate.google, at least in Oz. Sometimes it's quite efficient... | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 14:12 | comment | added | Yuji Tachikawa | @Wadim: all my Slavic is based on translate.google.com ... Please blame google:p What did zastava mean in proto-Slavic, say in the church Slavonic? @Antun; thanks! I'll accept your answer once you post it below. So it just meant the flag space ... | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 14:03 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | Antun, that's indeed a nice etymologic reason. I would suggest you putting your comment as answer. | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 13:53 | comment | added | user3775 | The word "zastava" means "flag" in Croatian (or Serbian). I. Mirkovic is Croatian, so maybe that's the explanation. | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 13:47 | comment | added | Wadim Zudilin | I've never heard about the Ukranian meaning "pledge" for "zastava" (which is, BTW, an old word in Slavic). My dictionary returns "1) (histor.) gate, turnpike; 2) (military) outpost; picket, security detachment." To my taste, "turnpike" is better than "outpost" and you may count flags as pikes. | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 10:09 | comment | added | José Figueroa-O'Farrill | +1 for trying all the obvious things first! | |
| Dec 30, 2010 at 9:38 | history | asked | Yuji Tachikawa | CC BY-SA 2.5 |