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Borut, I think for the forum the code for links is url= and /url instead of a href= and /a, and the brackets are [] and not <>.
Let's try with one:
WEATHER
ok, vse v redu
pozdrav!
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I'm preparing a little surprise for the Slovenian team

Conditions in Logarska valley last week. Bulmastif: M7, WI7, 180m, FA , Luka Ajnik, Lovro Vrsnik, Matjaz Dusic, Mitja Sorn.

The topic was "is this a mountain or an area"
I see rather a single mountain than an area of mountains

simpson wrote:IMHO Velika Planina is a mountain.

I agree. I don't think Slovene differs from Serbian here

Interestingly, in Poland/Ukraine "polonina/polonyna" means the meadows above timberline, which IMHO may attest the presence of the proto-South Slavs in the North-East Carpathians about a dozen centuries ago (I don't think this word was brought here by the Vlakh shepherds since it's hard to find a polonyna/planina in Romania (I guess they stuck to their "munte")

simpson wrote:I don't know Serbian, but I noticed the word kamen for rock (in your dictionnary).
In Slovenian there is the difference: kamen for stone, and skala for rock, allthough the definitions might be flexible.

That's exactly the same in Polish.

Not sure about the actual etymology of planina but indeed it is related with Ukrainian polonyna.
In Polish we say polonina under ukrainian influence, although a polish version should sound plonina if we followed the language system.
All of the above mentioned words originated from protoslavic polnina. There are different eastern, southern and western slavic variations, because of the so called TerT, TelT/TorT,TolT groups.
(For instance protoslavic bolto for "mud" is realised as bloto in Polish, boloto in Ukrainian and blato in Slovenian).

Here it gets a bit tricky, because we can't be sure where to derive the above mentioned protoslavic polnina from. For sure it's a noun built by adding the -ina suffix to an adjective polny. It's not clear for me what this adjective meant at the time.
It can come both from:
- pole "field"
- polny (plany/plony/polonyj) meaning "unproductive, infertile, arid"
- something else maybe (?)
Anyway both of those above mentioned have a meaning related to a ground that doesn't give yield - desertous or at least lacking forest, which probably wasn't very common on slavic territories in the middle ages.

(Sorry for no Polish characters in the post).

Thinking Polish, any sort of pole= field/treeless makes sense. Well, another interesting thing is the Bulgarian set: gora for forest, planina for mountain.

We all should use this:
http://www.slovio.com/

Isn't that better than English?

Petro wrote:We all should use this:
http://www.slovio.com/

Isn't that better than English?

Ask our Magyar fellows.

simpson wrote:Since we have bolto and bloto, mhla and hmla...
I propose alpina for planina

How about Slovenian Slaps instead of Slovenian Alps?

simpson wrote:Bravo Borut

Cestitke But which Boruta d'ya mean? This or that

Well done Borut, great wall and nice description

Petro wrote:We all should use this:
http://www.slovio.com/
Isn't that better than English?

Hehe, I speak this kind of mix with all Slavic nations and everyone understands me

kamil wrote:Hehe, I speak this kind of mix with all Slavic nations and everyone understands me

Hehe, I speak this non-Slavic language and everyone understands me

simpson wrote:Same difference! (or not?)

That is the question.
Regardless of the answer: Hvala Borut/a

Bob should know. There's still a g-copy that can be used to recreate the page.
And now there's a good TR left orphaned.