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As I’m going to the Polyglot Conference in Novi Sad<\/a> (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438 \u0421\u0430\u0434) [n\u00f4\u028bi\u02d0 s\u00e2\u02d0d] in October, I thought I should find out what Novi Sad actually means – it’s the kind of thing I like to know. I guessed that Novi<\/em> probably means new, but had no idea what Sad<\/em> might mean.<\/p>\n According to this dictionary<\/a>, \u043d\u043e\u0432\u0438<\/em> means new and \u0441\u0430\u0434<\/em> means ‘plantation’.<\/p>\n Wikipedia<\/a> translates the name as ‘New Garden’, and gives versions of the name in a number of languages used in local administration:<\/p>\n – Serbian: \u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438 \u0421\u0430\u0434, Novi Sad In Latin it’s known as Neoplanta<\/em>, and as Novi Sad in Croatian and Romanian.<\/p>\n The word \u0441\u0430\u0434 \/ sad<\/em> comes from the Proto-Slavic *saditi<\/em> (to plant), and means vessel, container or dish in Macedonian; garden, orchard or park in Russian and Ukrainian; orchard in Czech and Polish; fruit in Lower Sorbian; and garden, orchard or plantation in Slovak.<\/p>\n Sources: http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/\u0441\u0430\u0434<\/a> and http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sad<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I’m going to the Polyglot Conference in Novi Sad (\u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438 \u0421\u0430\u0434) [n\u00f4\u028bi\u02d0 s\u00e2\u02d0d] in October, I thought I should find out what Novi Sad actually means – it’s the kind of thing I like to know. I guessed that Novi probably means new, but had no idea what Sad might mean. According to this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,104,107,10,15,39,51,52,57,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-latin","category-polish","category-romanian","category-russian","category-serbian","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n– Hungarian: \u00dajvid\u00e9k (‘new territory\/region\/land’)
\n– Slovak: Nov\u00fd Sad
\n– Rusyn: \u041d\u043e\u0432\u0438 \u0421\u0430\u0434 (Novi Sad)<\/p>\n