I think I can help you here. He's a parrot who has been trained to say " pretty polly"
Meaning of Poli
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I think I can help you here. He's a parrot who has been trained to say " pretty polly"
1 poli Adjective (a) (of person) polite
(b) (of furniture) polished
2 poli Noun, masculine (a) shine
So his dad calls him by a French word, he is using a French email. Hm...
By the way the meaning is still not "pretty" in French but polite or shiny...
Could it refer to his/her "polished" performance on here ?
Fraggle Rocker
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Yes, the French word for "polish" is polir and poli is just the past participle. That's the source of the English word, it's not native Anglo-Saxon. Even "buff" is from French. But "shine" is a native word.
Polident is the name of a "toothpaste" for cleaning false teeth.
Fraggle Rocker
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Polis, as in Neapolis, "New City," which became Napoli in Italian when the Romans took over that portion of the Greek Empire, and Naples in French and English. Constantinople is a French adaptation of Greek Konstantinopolis, "The City of Constantine." It's also why we have cities in America with such clever names as Minneapolis and Indianapolis. Polit- is the combining form as in "political" and "metropolitan."
The name yields thousands of Google hits. According to this lady named Politimi, the literal meaning is "big price."
Sciencelovah
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As far as I know, astin is a common French name which means starlike, whereas poli- or poly- means many, a lot, or very. Poliastin hence means very starlike.
Fraggle Rocker
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French poli- is a normalized respelling of poly-, which is how the Greek root is spelled in Latin and English. The Y is the Greek letter ypsilon, which was pronounced like an umlauted U in ancient Greek. In modern Greek it's pronounced identically to I, iota.
Politimi does mean high priced aswell it depends how you pronounce it, it can also mean prescious.
Poli can also mean alot aswell as meaning city, again depends how it is pronounced.
In the Greek language the grammer is quite complex and words have female, male and unisex pronounciation.
Poli can also mean alot aswell as meaning city, again depends how it is pronounced.
In the Greek language the grammer is quite complex and words have female, male and unisex pronounciation.
Fraggle Rocker
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In a society like the United States, in which everything is analyzed economically, "precious" and "high-priced" are nearly equivalent terms. To me the connection in Greek seemed obvious.
Fraggle Rocker
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I understand. But this is America. We measure our love in dollars.
