Re: that culminates everything

--- In cybalist@..., alexmoeller@... wrote:

> I read now that the word "light" in romanian is in fact the
> word "world". Is there any example from all you know where in
>a language, no matter which one, could be even one non IE
>could be from Papua New Guinea, is there a language where
>light=world?

Beside the Old Church Slavonic "svetu", the source of the Ukr.
word already mentioned by George, and clearly the word on
which the Romanian was calqued, Buck lists Sanskrit "loka-"
'open space, earth, world', related to Greek "leukos" 'bright' ,
Latin "lucus" 'grove' (notoriously "a non lucendo") etc. The
semantics of the transfer of meaning should be obvious, except
perhaps to moles or eathworms.