Re: Siwe - House-Father

On 2009-06-13 13:18, Anatoly Guzaev wrote:

> 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).

<osoba> and <izba> are not related. The latter comes from Old Russian
<istUba> (cf. OCz. jistba, OPol. (h)istba, OCS jIstUba etc.), probably
borrowed from some very early Romance source. Nor is Lat. homo related
to English home (it _is_ cognate to Old English guma 'man', but that's a
different story) or English house to the first element of Slavic
gospod-. Sorry, but you have to learn some facts and rules first if you
want to contribute anything sensible to discussions of etymology.

Piotr