SC - pierogis

[Jenn/Yana]

In Russian, "pirog" (not pirosk) means pie/tart (with a shortcrust or
bread-type crust and baked). 

"pir" means feast/banquet (there's one of them feast terms!), and so does
"pirshestvo"(the verb form is pirshestvovat')
"pirozhok" = pastry, patty, pie
"pirozhnoe" = pastries, fancy cake, pastry, it used to mean "sweet" as well.

I'll need to go and double-check with an Old Russian language dictionary,
but "pir" sounds like an ancient word to me and is more than likely period
(I know I've seen period references to pies, will have to go and find
them).  Guess Russians like their pies enough to equate them with feasting,
hmm?  Or maybe it goes the other way 'round.


>This occurred to me too. It may be that it's a confusion (or more
>properly an equivocation) of styles. I suspect both the Russian pirosk
>and the Polish pierog are basically the same word meaning something like
>"turnover", but the styles are somewhat different, with piroshki
>generally being a baked article, and pierogen being more of a cuskyno --
>ahem--- I mean ravioli-ish thing.
>
>Adamantius

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