Beest is just Dutch and Afrikaans for animal
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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.
That'll do it
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!"
No it's the Wild eBeast, the predecessor to the eMachine and the e-mail.
Is it related to Wile eCoyote?
This always reminds me of the Perfectly Normal Beasts from Mostly Harmless.