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Sometimes when I look at the moronic stuff that is written in Slavic academic literature, I begin to wonder whether low-IQ folks somehow unable to find employment end up synecured at Slavic universities.
CZASAMI KIEDY SLEDZE IDIOTYCZNE OPRACOWANIA NAUKOWCOW W SLOWIANSKICH UNIWERSYTETACH,CZACZYNAM SIE ZASTANAWIAC CZY CZASEM LUDZIE Z WYJATKOWO NISKIM ILORAZEM INTELIGENCJI NIE MOGAC ZNALESC PRACY DOSTAJA PRACE NA UNIWERSYTETACH.
Take the word skrzat which means as much as a little woodland elf or a little hidden household creature, in the sense of a hearth protector. The word, attested, in all Slavic languages is, derived, from the German Schratt, traced to the Old High German scrato (also, schrat, schrate, schretel(in)). Trouble is that the word is not present in most Slavic languages but it is not present in other Germanic languages. So how is a word present in all Slavic languages derived from a word present in some Germanic languages? I mean, if the reverse were true, then our professors would have (usually correctly) concluded that the word is of Germanic origin. But, as already discussed, there is no parallelism here at all. The reason that Slavic scholars are willing to adopt these ridiculous positions is because they have extremely low self-esteem (which, in turn, might have something to do with their low IQs).
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But, they say, there are Germanic words that are cognate! Really? Let’s see:
Well, there is skratti – this Icelandic word that means a “demon”. Ok, what kind of a demon? Big, little, appearing at nighttime? We do not know because the word expresses no meaning whatsoever. It itself is derived from Old Norse skratti (same) which means? No one knows but it is derived from the Proto-Germanic *skrattuz which is supposed to mean: “to shrink, wither, dry out, crinkle, wimple.” That might make sense if you think of a skrzat as an old, wrinkly face but the trouble is that *skrattuz is just made up. No such word, much less its meaning, has ever been attested. The word is just made up (hence the “*” symbol).
There is also scrat – an English which means as much as “to scratch” or “rake”. I suppose you can tray to rationalize an old wrinkly face as having been scratched but that is a bit of a stretch. Moreover, that English word is, supposedly, related to the Swedish kratt which does not mean a goblin or any creature but simply, again, a “rake”. The only thing that is interesting here is that the English version – if it is really derived from the Swedish – suggests that adding an “s” or “z” to a verb was a Germanic, as well as Slavic, phenomenon (compare grac > zgrac or pieprzyc > spieprzyc). (But we will go back to this kratt momentarily in its Estonian version).
What else? How about the Gothic skreitan? Except that that means “to shred,” “to tear.” There is no evident connection to any goblins. Swedish skräda? That means “to mince.” In other words, much the same as to shred.
What about Slavic languages?
Well, we have skřítek which, in Czech, means a small, hidden, creature. Unlike the Germanic words, the name is completely explainable from Slavic as someone who is “hidden” from the Slavic kryty and hence > skryty. A “little” hidden person is, therefore, endowed with the -ek suffix and, thereby, becomes a noun.
But if “i” does not work, how about the “a” versions? Well, there is the Polish kraść meaning “to steal”. He stole is written skradł. Here I would like to take a detour and return to kratt from above. It turns out that kratt means “a creature which steals various items” for its owner… in Estonian. Crazy? Well, how about, a connection to the Scrittifini – (hidden Finni/Veni?) a people that keeps showing up in the area of Poland in almost every ancient geographical description of the area.
But there is another candidate with explanatory power – skradać się –  which means “to sneak”, “to creep”, “to slink.”
The point is that any one of these etymologies is sufficient to explain precisely the meaning of skrzat:
• hidden
• stealing
• sneaking
little creature. (Note too that in both Germanic and Slavic languages the creature is little such that the word is synonymous with that concept).
This too makes much more sense. When the Scandinavians came down from, well, Scandinavia, they were – likely – largely young warriors without women. The Venetic women they captured

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