Re: Mir - in Russian?

You should have been around a couple of weeks ago. See Cybalist
35519 and replies.
Dan

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Gordon Barlow" <barlow@...> 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 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