Kinda. Although most people would say "dier" for animal in Afrikaans. Beest could be related to "bees" which is singular for cattle. "Beeste" for the plural. That's what I always thought... That the name was more akin to "wild cattle" than "wild beast".
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Deestan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 2y
European explorer, pointing at wild animal: "Excuse me sir, what is that?"
Local: "It's a wild animal."
European explorer, writing it down: "Thank you!"
gentooer@programming.dev · 26 pts · 2y
Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal
veroxii@aussie.zone · 12 pts · 2y
Kinda. Although most people would say "dier" for animal in Afrikaans. Beest could be related to "bees" which is singular for cattle. "Beeste" for the plural. That's what I always thought... That the name was more akin to "wild cattle" than "wild beast".
But I'm not a real animalnameologist so...
Gork@lemm.ee · 19 pts · 2y
No it's the Wild eBeast, the predecessor to the eMachine and the e-mail.
embed_me@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
Is it related to Wile eCoyote?
ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 2y
This always reminds me of the Perfectly Normal Beasts from Mostly Harmless.