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Thread #20928   Message #2188772
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
08-Nov-07 - 03:29 AM
Thread Name: Help: Russian vocabulary
Subject: RE: Help: Russian vocabulary
Former Russian Spy - masculine is zelenyi, but since pole is neuter, it is zelenoe.

Greenfield sounds definitely Jewish when from the Ukraina; in Yiddish it is Grinfeld (111.000 hits with Google.)

High German form: Gruenfeld (or the u with a trema)