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A black dog is said to have appeared to wrestlers at Whiteborough, a tumulus near Launceston. [37] A black dog was once said to haunt the main road between Bodmin and Launceston near Linkinhorne. [38] During the 1800s, a Cornish mining accident resulted in numerous deaths and led to the local area being haunted by a pack of black dogs. [39]
Borzoi is the masculine singular form of an archaic Russian adjective that means 'fast'. Borzaya sobaka ('fast dog') is the basic term for sighthounds used by Russians, though sobaka is usually dropped. The name psovaya derived from the word psovina, which means 'wavy, silky coat', just as hortaya (as in hortaya borzaya) means
Many languages, including English, contain words (Russianisms) most likely borrowed from the Russian language. Not all of the words are of purely Russian or origin. Some of them co-exist in other Slavic languages, and it can be difficult to determine whether they entered English from Russian or, say, Bulgarian. Some other words are borrowed or ...
Oh, and there's also the meaning of "The Black Dog" in English folklore (which Swifties are leaning into for obvious reasons that may or not have to do with Joe Alwyn being English):
Unlike English, in which the use of diminutive forms is optional even between close friends, in East Slavonic languages, such forms are obligatory in certain contexts because of the strong T–V distinction: the T-form of address usually requires the short form of the counterpart's name. Also, unlike other languages with prominent use of name ...
Dogs specifically named as barghests appear in the following: The barghest appears in the children's book The Whitby Witches by Robin Jarvis. In Roald Dahl's The Witches, the barghest is described as always being male. Neil Gaiman's short story "Black Dog" features a barghest in the form of a huge black dog which has occult powers.
The term “black dog” was initially coined in the 1700s to describe “a brief period in a person’s life” but has since expanded to cover the spectrum of depression and its symptoms.
Black dog (coin), a coin in the Caribbean, starting under the reign of Queen Anne of Great Britain; Black Dog (Osage chief) (1780–1848), and the name of his son; Black Dog II, the son of Black Dog, a company commander of the Osage Battalion, an 1863–1865 Native American unit of the Confederate States Army