Thank you very much Mr. Wordingham.
I do apologize for my
mistake.
Dear All,
Allow me to add a little more of my observations, which
could sound oddly but several similarities between a certain Serbian (Slavic)
words and customs on one side and some elements in Hindu religion on the other
have astonished me and overwhelmed my capabilities to understand it properly.
Namely:
- God
Krsna ( Krishna ) is very close to Serbian
Krsna slava (a custom of the family celebration devoted to the one of the
Christian Saints for instance St. Nicholas, St. John etc.) probably a
habit remained from the ancient pagan period? As far as I know this custom
does not exist among other Christian nations?
- Krshnjak
a sort of cake or bread served during such family ceremony.
- Govinda
and his possible relation to the names Vindi, Wenden and Indi?
- Surabhi
cow who bathed Krsna in her own milk and "transformed" him to Govinda
(protector of cows) Surabhi > Srbi (Serbs)? Govinda > Serb. goveda
(cattle)?
- Gospodin
(Gospod) master, gentleman, God a very interesting development of this
Serbian compound word: maybe it was made of Sskr. "gopas" (shepherd) and
the number 1 "jedan" (Russ. odin, Sanskrit aadima the first, god Odin?). It
seems to be the same idea of "the First Shepherd" as it was in
Christianity? Gopas-Odin > Gosp-Odin?
- Kobasica
Serbian food made of meat; perhaps the shepherd food? Serbian surname
Kobas?
- Rasa
Lila a play or dance between Krishna
and a great number of Gopis (shepherdess). One of the names of Serbs was
Rasi (Rusi?) and they called their medieval country Rashka (Rascia,
Russ?). Even today in Serbia
is present an event named Petrovdanske Lile (St. Peter's Day) where the
youngsters are bearing torches running at night through the mountain's
forest. Probably it could be linked to the purification of the soul using
a divine fire?
- I
have another problem that bothers me enormously. I mentioned Serbian words "akov" (measure
for fluid), "okov" (fetter), potkov
(pod okov hors shoe potkovica) in some of my previous posts (Serb. pod
under, beneath). Could the syllables "gov" and "cow" be in any relation
to "okov" (fetter) and "fetter" to "water" and even "father"? I am aware that
all this sounds ludicrous and I can hardly imagine a "cow-shoes" as it is
in the case of horse (Lat. equus). In Serbian water is "voda", where the
final "r" was lost (I do not know why). There is a verb "voditi" (to
lead), clearly linked to water (voda, vodja - leader). It seems "water" ("aqua")
was some kind of "ghost word" here as it was in the words relating to life (libatio,
livati, live, leben)?
- Finally,
let us try to compare Serbian "lokva" (pond, a small bog), English "lake"
and Lat. liquor. Could this be a compound word "li-akva"? If so, what
about above mentioned words livati, libation, live, leben, aqua, okov,
water, fetter, voditi, vodja, lieder, equus, cow
Are they all closely
related to the movement of water and how?
Thanks in advance,
Dusan Vukotic
--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Richard Wordingham"
<richard@...> wrote:
>
> I believe this was sent to the moderators in error:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dusan Vukotic" whitedawn@...
> To: cybalist-owner@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, February 11, 2006 9:07 PM
> Subject: Re: Of cows and living
>
>
> Let me mention a few Serbian words which eventually might be of some
> help here:
> goveda (cattle) --> Govinda (Hindu deity Krsna, "protector")
> ziveti --> live (leben, Lat. libatio > Serb.livati - to pour water
or
> drink into a basin, tank or glass)
> uzivati --> injoy, relish - in both cases (live, ziveti) life is
> firmly connected with joy and celebration.
> Additionally: in Serb. there is a noun zivljenje, in fact ziv-lijenje
> or ziv-livanje where the second part of this word could be compared to
> Eng.
life or Deutch Leben.
> gibanje --> (possible consonant mutation g>z; gibati - ziveti)
> movement of an object in different directions likewise water.
> kuvanje (cooking), kovanje (forge, coin), akov (an old measure for
> fluid), kupanje (bathing, swimming); all this words are directly or
> indirectly related to water (Lat. aqua)
> zivo, zivotno --> alive - Greek. zotanos Lat. vivo
>
> Of course, it could be just a chance resemblance and I would be happy
> to here your precious opinion.
>
> Best regards,
> Dusan Vukotic
>