Re: Slavic saint - light in darkeness?

At 5:03:50 AM on Friday, July 31, 2009, Anatoly Guzaev
wrote:

> OK, let us skip the question why anyone would compare St.
> John with glow-worm? Midsummer (St. John's eve) is a
> festival of fire and light; bonfire and torches are lit
> everywhere.

There's no need to skip it, since Piotr already gave the
explanation.

[...]

> Serbo-Croatian (ekavian) too: svet
> 'world', svet 'holy'.

Of course: *eN and *e^ have the same reflexes in Ekavian SC.

Brian