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Nas druhy ponor byl pri zapadu slunce, takze ke konci uz byla uplna tma a museli jsme pouzivat baterky, moc se nam to libilo, vsechno vypadalo mnohem barevnejsi, nez pri dennim svetle.
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Vermibus hie donor & fie difcederc conor Qualiter hie ponor ponitur omms honor.
Antient funeral monuments, of Great-Britain, Ireland, and the islands adjacent 1767
hernesheir commented on the word ponor
cf. swallet
January 15, 2009
rolig commented on the word ponor
Another borrowing from either Slovene or Serbo-Croatian.
January 15, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word ponor
A ponor is kind of a portal, where surface waters flow either partially or completely underground into a Karst ground-water system.
Wikipedia notes that there are several municipalities in SE Europe named Ponor, after the stream-swallowing caves in the vicinity.
January 15, 2009