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...

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 12 points 9 months ago (1 children)

In Dutch it leans closer to beast than animal

[–] gentooer@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

O weird, it doesn't have that connotation for me. I am from Flanders tho, not the Netherlands.

[–] bownage@beehaw.org 1 points 9 months ago

That'll do it

[–] Deestan@lemmy.world 27 points 9 months ago

European explorer, pointing at wild animal: "Excuse me sir, what is that?"

Local: "It's a wild animal."

European explorer, writing it down: "Thank you!"

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No it's the Wild eBeast, the predecessor to the eMachine and the e-mail.

[–] embed_me@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago

Is it related to Wile eCoyote?

[–] ryven@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 9 months ago

This always reminds me of the Perfectly Normal Beasts from Mostly Harmless.