nadmenny

It opened with German eagles and the Nazi flag with that like crooked cross that all mal - chicks at school love to draw, and then there were very haughty and nadmenny like German officers walking through streets that were all dust and bomb-holes and broken build - ings.

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I finally looked up nadmevat'sya in Dahl, where I found that the prefix was not nad - but na -, and the root verb was дмить (dmit ')' to blow, 'first person дму (dmu); furthermore, it was from this verb that the common adjective надменный (nadmenny)' haughty, arrogant 'is derived!

languagehat.com 2010

I finally looked up nadmevat'sya in Dahl, where I found that the prefix was not nad - but na -, and the root verb was дмить (dmit ')' to blow, 'first person дму (dmu); furthermore, it was from this verb that the common adjective надменный (nadmenny)' haughty, arrogant 'is derived!

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Again, I'd always assumed the adjective contained the nad - prefix, meaning 'over,' but no, the obsolete na-dmit ', like the related and still common na-dut', means 'to blow up, puff up,' and nadmenny is etymologically 'puffed up,' which makes perfect sense.

languagehat.com 2010

Again, I'd always assumed the adjective contained the nad - prefix, meaning 'over,' but no, the obsolete na-dmit ', like the related and still common na-dut', means 'to blow up, puff up,' and nadmenny is etymologically 'puffed up,' which makes perfect sense.

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* guff - guffaw nachinat - to begin gulliver - head nadmenny - arrogant

Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010