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Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal
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...
In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal
O weird, it doesn't have that connotation for me. I am from Flanders tho, not the Netherlands.
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