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Mierdas
Is it in Spanish? Can you help me out with it's construction?
It is. Mierda is Spanish for shit.
This answer is too fucking elegant. One another reason to finally learn it (:
To be fair, it's also "mierde" in French, because it's "merda" in Latin and was "smerda" before that in Proto-Indo-European (meaning "stench"). 🤓
I see. And that smerda word is saved in slavic languages, the earliest entry I remember is a class of citizens in Kiyvan Rus': https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smerd But other than that it's used now to describe an ugly scent. Yet, I haven't thought of that connection before you said it (:
Mierda - shit