Re: Siwe - House-Father

Dear Piotr!
Yes, it looks like there are a few different branches of unrelated words. But, don't you think that soba/izba (room, cottage) and osoba (person) may be mutually interrelated in the same way as human (Lat. homo) and home (Lat. domus; cf. dominus and homo -inis). Simply, I don't believe that something like that can happen by chance. Also, Latin domus vs. dominus and Slavic dom against Sr-Cr. domaćin (host vs. house; Sloven. hiša and gospodar: Cz. hospodář = haus-father).

To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
From: gpiotr@...
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:57:05 +0200
Subject: Re: Res: Res: [tied] Siwe

On 2009-06-13 11:39, Anatoly Guzaev wrote:

> Compare Russ. себя 'self, itself' [sebja] and семья [sem'ja] on one side
> and Russ. особа (Cz. osoba 'person') and изба (Sloven. soba, izba 'a
> small room, cottage') on the other; in addition, Russ. сам 'alone' (Cz.
> osamělost 'loneliness' ; Lat. semel 'once, a single time, for the first
> time, once for all').
> I hope you understood what I wanted to say.

Dear Anatoly, it isn't enough to present a number of superficially
similar words and say "compare". The examples you give above belong to
several different word families, unconnected with each other.

Piotr

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