Well while East European football is still vaguely in discussion, I'd like to ask you- a lot of teams seem to have 'Dinamo' or 'Dynamo' in their name. Would you have any idea if it means the same thing as it does in English? Or whether it's something totally different?
Well, I guess Dinamo comes from the same thing as in English, dynamic etc. When I was young I used to wonder about this as well, since I was playing basketball for Dinamo Bucharest. Also my favourite team is Dinamo Bucharest.
Well, these names come from Russian basically and were introduced in the communist era, when all sports had to immitate the Russian style, even though we used to beat the shit out of them in mainly everything. (maybe except ice hockey). In Romanian, dinam means a measure of movement and maily measures speed and impulse (kinda forgot, physics seems like so far away...). Maybe that is where it all comes from.
Dinamo is the most frequently used: Bucharest, Moscow, Minsk, Kiev.
Other names which are common: Slavia (Prague, Sofija), the word "star", translated in every language (Steaua Bucharest, Zvesna Czerna, or something like that in serbian, which means Red Star Belgrade), Metalurg, Levski, Lokomotiv and so on.
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< lj-cuts >So... where should I start, well, here is the entire story...< /lj-cuts >
The rest of the story...
Thanks. Oh, and don't forget to get rid of the gaps between the < and lj-cuts and the other side > also.
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you don't have so many friends on your friends list so it obviously wouldn't be a problem for you. :)
and i don't mind the long entries. all i'm saying is lj-cut it. such a simple, painless request.
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Well, these names come from Russian basically and were introduced in the communist era, when all sports had to immitate the Russian style, even though we used to beat the shit out of them in mainly everything. (maybe except ice hockey). In Romanian, dinam means a measure of movement and maily measures speed and impulse (kinda forgot, physics seems like so far away...). Maybe that is where it all comes from.
Dinamo is the most frequently used: Bucharest, Moscow, Minsk, Kiev.
Other names which are common: Slavia (Prague, Sofija), the word "star", translated in every language (Steaua Bucharest, Zvesna Czerna, or something like that in serbian, which means Red Star Belgrade), Metalurg, Levski, Lokomotiv and so on.
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