I imagine it's the equivalent of телятина (telyatina) in Russian.
1 year ago | 84
I heard my great grandmother, who once lived in Poland, say this word when we got together as a family for lunch or dinner.
1 year ago | 1
The only thing I can make up from that word at face value is "ciel" which in French is sky. Flowers often point upwards and it sounds kinda flowery so I'm going with that. Which means that's probably wrong. 😅 (for reference: Flemish-Dutch native speaker, fluent in English, basic/medium in French, a bit of Norwegian and Gaelic.
1 year ago | 14
Like a tarantella or mazurka, it sounds like something musical- and dance-like at the same time
1 year ago | 3
Hello from Serbia! It sound similar to serbian word "teletina", which is young beef.
1 year ago | 13
I associated this word with "moving like heaven" (ciel = heaven in French, kine = moving towards in greek) so I thought it would be either the dance, or the instrument. Even though I am a native Dutch speaker, I am clearly biased towards Roman languages and I should really start learning Russian for some balance.
1 year ago (edited) | 2
Took me a little while to figure out the relation to "telecí". If I didn't have the options I'd have no idea.
1 year ago | 1
Got the right answer by chance. I'm not a slavic language speaker but I kinda thought "cina" might indicate something small somehow.
1 year ago | 9
Brit with a bit of German, French, Jp and a scattering of other languages here. My immediate thought was the instrument, like some form of cello, but as ciel is latin & french for sky/ heaven I thought a type of flower or dance would be more fitting. Based on the results, seems like it's actually the only one I didn't consider lol.
1 year ago | 0
Given the choices, it’s obviously “veal” - the Polish word is very close to Russian and Ukrainian «телятина», and, I imagine, to words for “veal” in other Slavic languages. If I had to guess it as a completely standalone word, no choices, no context, I’d most likely fail. But in an appropriate context, say, on a restaurant menu, would be very easy :)
1 year ago | 16
I'm a native English speaker, so no similar language to go off, but reading the comments, I guessed right. I have no idea why I thought it was that, it just felt right and the others didn't.
1 year ago | 1
"cina" in Romanian means dinner...so the word is related to something culinary
1 year ago (edited) | 3
cie= те , ę = я, ci = ти . So it's obviously телятина in russian that is young beef
1 year ago | 8
It was easy 🤓. There is a similar in spelling word телятина (teljátina) in Russian. I'm not a Polish speaker but some parallel historical phonetic phenomenon occured in both languages gives me hints to guess Polish words. Not always, though 😅 Norbert, thank you for the riddle
1 year ago (edited) | 1
I have no knowledge of any language in Polish language family, but the “ina” made me think diminutive, just as in the Romance languages, so I picked veal.
1 year ago | 5
w języku białoruskim byłaby to " цяляціна" lub "cialacina" używając łacinski alfabet
1 year ago | 14
I've only had a couple of Duolingo lessons, so I'm just going by my gut.
1 year ago | 2
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