'Жрети' is a Church Slavonic word and means 'make a sacrifice to a god' what a 'жрец' (a priest) goes in for. The day the animal sacrifice was made was a meat-gobbling day in many early societies. So 'zhratj' and zhreti' are cognate.

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Спасибо, но можно кириллицей.

There's a Russian sinological forum at http://www.oriental.ru/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?board=chineselinguistics. A certain economist in Siberia has got an invitation letter from China. It is here. 邀 请 信 据囤际投入产出学会 决定，第15届国际投ࠣ 7;产出大会于2005年6 月26日一7月1日在北京 013;国人民大学举行。 823;会学术委员会已经 批准你的沦文参加这 次大会，并请届时在 北京的大会...

I like very much Mediterráneo by Juan Manuel Serrat. Here's my translation into Russian: _______________________________________________ Ah, esli odnazhdy gore Na menja natravit Parku, Tolknite s berega barku Pod veter osennij v more! Bushujut tam volny v spore, Razbilasja lodka! Ne zhalko . _______...

The Russian for 'gobble, devour' is 'zhratj', not 'zhreti' (in Ukrainian it's 'zherty'.)

I've heard about this theory. But infants don't use prepositions.

Hebrew: 'ad = till
Latin: ad =to(wards)

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Hebrew: âv (father)
Latin: av-us (grandfather)

A wonderful coincidence!

Here are two examples from my Chinese manual: _______________________________________________ 1. Zhèi bâ chîz tài cháng. This ruler is too long. 2. Nèige píb a o tài dà . That bag is too big. _______________________________________________ So your version Nr.2 is correct. But I'm tài inexperienced t...

Flaminius: I am not sure when it happened or will happen Unfortunately, this report is just the first one on the bird-flu epidemy among wild geese and gulls in Western China, which is going on. As to the problem of the Chinese writing, I think it may be solved only if somebody invents cheap and uncu...

Tóv shemacâthí b`'acmí êth ha makóm hazeh? Lô! Êth zeh âní 'ascíthí b`'ezrath xavernú Anders!

Flam! Thank you. With your help, I may say that I've translated my first article. What a fun these walks in mist!

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Please, help translate a tiny Chinese sentence. All hieroglyphs are known, but I cannot glue them. 农业部5月4日接到青海省农牧厅报告,... Nóngyèbù 5 yuè 4 rí ji e dào Q i nhâi shêng nóngmùt i ng bàogào. What I'm confident in: nóngyèbù (ministry of agriculture) 5月4日 (May 4) Q i nhâi shêng (Qinhai province)