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Jan the Redbeard

What is this about naming places? I mean there was once a place in Austria called Fucking. And only when the Americans where there they got to know what that means. They have, some years ago, changed the name.

F3lix

🏕️😁👍 Also, looking it up on Google, I think the local LGBTQIA+ community is using it quite well. 🙌 It is also a bird preserve, so you will get to birdwatch plenty. 🐦🦆🦉🐦‍⬛ = Smol Lithianian Study: = Bird Preserve = telmologinis draustinis (telmological preserve, telmological = relating to avian species/birds) From what I found, use of the suffix '-kas' is like the English '-let'/'-ling' to refer to something small/a child. E.g. = Lithuanian = - šuo (m) = Dog - šuniukas (m) = Puppy = English = - Wing (large wing) and Winglet (tiny wing) - Duck and Duckling (baby duck) So 'Gèjus' and 'Gèjukas' might be like saying 'Gay' and 'Gaylet/Gayling'.

obelis

That's right! Lithuanian language is rich in suffixes that express smallness. The lake could also be called Gėjelis, Gėjytis, Gėjutis, Gėjulis, or Gėjužis, and it would also mean Little Gay.