--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Milos Bogdanovic" <milos@...>
wrote:
>
> What is the origin of root "MIR" in Russian language, in
meaning "world"?
>
> Do some other Indo-Europeans have root "MIR" in this meaning
(world)?
>
> And, what is the ethimology of the following words from Germanic
mithology:
> Ymir, Mimir, Hymir, Bergelmir, Buri, Bor, Odin, Vili and Ve?
>
> Are these word of Indo-European origin, or maybe of pre Indo-
European
> population of north Europe?
>
> Milos Bogdanovic
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According to Derksen:
Record number: 901
Proto-Slavic form: mirú
See also: mi\lú(jü)
Page in Trubac^ev: XIX 55-57
Old Church Slavic: mirú `peace, world' [m u/o]
Russian: mir `peace, world' [m.o]
Czech: mi/r `peace, world' [m.o]
Slovak: mier `peace' [m.o]
Polish: mir `peace' [m.o]
Serbo-Croatian: mi:r `peace, world' [m.o]
Slovene: mir `peace' [m.o]
Proto-Balto-Slavic reconstruction: mei?ro/-
Lithuanian: mieras (OLith.) `peace' [m.o]
Latvian: mie^rs `peace' [m.o]
Indo-European reconstruction: meiH-ro-
Other cognates: Lat. mi:tis `soft (of taste)' [adj]
I will add here as well Albanian adjective <(i,e) mirë> 'good',
abstract noun <mirësi> 'kindness', compound <mirëqenie> 'well-
being, prosperity', prefixed verb <pëmirësoj> 'to improve', suffixed
form <miratoj> 'to aprove', etc.
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