[120b] Mushko chedo (male child). The male sex are in Servia, as elsewhere, deemed entitled to more care and attention than the other.
[122] Herzegovina. S. Sabba.
[127a] Svszde, star, is of the feminine gender.
[127b] Sun is feminine in Servian.
[152] Smederevo—a Servian fortress on the Danube.
[153] The Leech, Sanguisuga; but in Servian there is no disagreeable association with the word. It is the name usually employed to describe the beauty of the eyebrows, as swallows’ wings are the simile used for eye-lashes. See p. 27.
[157a] Vishnia, the universal Sclavonian name of the Vistula cherry-tree. The Cerasum apronianum of Linné.
[157b] The Vila nearly corresponds to the Peri of the Persians, and the Wöla of the Scandinavians.
[157c] Radisha, is the name of a man. Radovanic—joy.
[158] Lepota as the Servian word for Beauty.