Mir - in Russian?

> >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 etymology of the following words from Germanic

mythology:

> >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 21.12.2004
>

I have just read, in a history of the Ottoman Empire, that Turkish
"miri/meeree" (a circumflex over each i, lengthening the sounds; meeree
would be the accurate transliteration) meant "the state". In combination
the same word indicated a position of authority - thus, mirihur/meereehoor
meant the equivalent of English "marshal". Might there be a connection
between the Turkish root-word and the Russian mir="world", or are the forms
purely circumstantial? I don't know how "mir" came to mean "world"; for all
I know the meaning was narrower in earlier times.

Gordon Barlow