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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IvaPan, post: 5957706, member: 78949&quot;]According to Google translate, &quot;basniza un skola&quot; in Romanian means &quot;a school fairy tale&quot;. Here is a link to an old book with the same name, offered in Romanian site:</p><p><a href="https://www.europeana.eu/ro/item/97/656214" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.europeana.eu/ro/item/97/656214" rel="nofollow">Basniza un skola : preekschlasijums Sinibu Komisijas wasaras sapulzēs 20. junijā 1907. g. | Europeana</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Although it indeed refers to a Latvian source - National Library of Latvia, and that the book is in Latvian.</p><p>Google translate is awful when it comes to less common languages...</p><p><br /></p><p>Interesting, basnya or basnja in Bulgarian means &quot;fable&quot;. In Russian, too. Maybe from the same Slavic origin, although neither Romanian nor Latvian is Slavic. Or maybe old Latin origin as Latvian and Romanian are Romance languages (edit, my mistake, Latvian is Germanic, not Romance). No, not from Latin. So it should be from Slavic???</p><p><br /></p><p>On top of that, Google translate claims that &quot;basniza&quot; in Czech means also &quot;a fairy tale&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>Seems that &quot;basniza&quot; in Latvian indeed means &quot;church&quot; so it should be read as &quot;Church and school&quot; in Latvian. From here <a href="https://dom.lndb.lv/data/obj/file/16799226.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://dom.lndb.lv/data/obj/file/16799226.pdf" rel="nofollow">16799226.pdf (lndb.lv)</a></p><p>It is a book about the church&nbsp; in Umurga and on page 5 there is a picture of the&nbsp; Church in Umurga town, spelt in the same way as on the printing block.</p><p><a href="http://www.visitlimbazi.lv/lv/jaunlaulatajiem?1307700027#:~:text=Umurgas%20eva%C5%86%C4%A3%C4%93liski%20luterisk%C4%81%20bazn%C4%ABca%20celta%201496.%20gad%C4%81%2C%20t%C4%81,savs%20sl%C4%93gts%20d%C4%81rzs%2C%20kur%20viesi%20var%20pat%C4%ABkami%20uzkav%C4%93ties." target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.visitlimbazi.lv/lv/jaunlaulatajiem?1307700027#:~:text=Umurgas%20eva%C5%86%C4%A3%C4%93liski%20luterisk%C4%81%20bazn%C4%ABca%20celta%201496.%20gad%C4%81%2C%20t%C4%81,savs%20sl%C4%93gts%20d%C4%81rzs%2C%20kur%20viesi%20var%20pat%C4%ABkami%20uzkav%C4%93ties." rel="nofollow">Umurga Church - visitLimbazi.lv</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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