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  What it means

  Literally “the land of eternal hunts.” The Native American concept of the Happy Hunting Ground — used in Polish as a poetic euphemism for the afterlife or death. “The happy hunting grounds,” “the great beyond.”

  Vocabulary

  • kraina — land, realm
  • wieczny — eternal
  • łowy — hunts, hunting (archaic plural)

  Grammar note

  'Wiecznych łowów' — genitive plural of 'wieczne łowy' after 'kraina' (land of eternal hunts).

  Cultural context

  Entered Polish through Western popular culture's romanticised image of Native Americans — now used as a gentle, slightly humorous euphemism for death.

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