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Needing advice on a word - "Spanker" or "One who spanks"
In the Halo Universe (video game), of which a story I'm writing takes place, the rocket launchers are painted with the word "SPNKr", which is commonly read as "Spanker". I couldn't tell you why. For my story, the character who's using the rocket launcher is Russian, and so I've had her paint over "SPNKr" with a Russian word, but I want to make sure I'm using the right one. Right now, I have that word as "ШЛЕПОК", which I think means "spank" or the general action of spanking. Would that be a good parallel for "spanker"? I've also come across the word "рысак"; would that be better?
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Моет vs. стирает
I know that both mean "washing." On my Rosetta Stone courses, it shows a man washing a car, and says "Он моет свою машину." Then it shows a woman washing her sweater, and says "Она стирает свитер." So what is the difference between моет and стирает?
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Casual Greetings
In this video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEb-S-U01mQ&feature=youtu.be) Masha of Arkona says a greeting, and then I assume "my friends." As best I can tell, the greeting is "Zdravye." I've asked my Russian step-aunt and she confirmed that it's modern Russian, but simply left it at being a greeting.
Would anyone here be able to expand upon what exactly it is being said? Such as the root word, literal meaning, and possible conjugations?
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What does "Зимушка" mean?
This is somewhat of a big question, with an important plan from it.
Зимушка is the title of an Arkona song, and I have seen it translated as "Winter." Yet the lyrics do say "Зимушка-Зима," using the usual word for winter that I've encountered.
However, I really like the sound of Зимушка, and plan on giving that name to my sword, as I received it in the winter. Does it mean "winter" or is it a specific type of winter, perhaps describing a very harsh winter?
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Why is "Г" sometimes pronounced "V"?
Most notably in words like "его," my Rosetta Stone will instruct the pronunciation as "evo." Is this a correct pronunciation? If so, is there any grammatical reason that it is pronounced "evo" rather than "ego"?
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What does "Гой" mean?
The best example that I can find of this is the Аркона song "Гой, Роде, Гой" in which Rod is the Slavic God of the Universe. I have heard that it is a hailing, and the song is generally translated as "Hail, Rod, Hail" but I have also heard that it is a simple expression such as "Oy" or "Ugh."
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