#proto slavic

[kutyozh]

the proto slavic word for 'bread' *xlěbъ traces back to the proto germanic word for 'bread' *hlaibaz??????????????????

[lukaszmichal]

The word for “eye” in Proto-Slavic and its daughter languages:

Proto-Slavic *oko Belarusian: око Ukrainian: око Old Church Slavonic: ⱁⰽⱁ (oko) Bulgarian: око Croatian: oko Slovene: oko Czech: oko Polish: oko Slovak: oko

Polabian: våt’ü

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[crescentaureola]

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Does anyone know anything about the Wendish black dragon god, called Zir/Zirnitra/Rosvodiz? Because the only information I could find about him is this paragraph: 

"In Wendish mythology Zirnitra, or Zir, is a black Slavic dragon and the god of sorcery. The image of Zirnitra was employed on a Wendish flag when the Wends fought the invading Saxons. Zirnitra literally means “magically empowered”. Rosvodiz is a byname of Zirnitra."

I don’t know if it’s because that these names were so distorted but I can’t find any Proto-Slavic root words for these names neither; and I’m assuming that it’s probably Weles because of the connection to magic and dragon-scaly-like-creatures but I still need some more info about him. 

As I am writing it I guess the name “Rosvodiz“ could be from roz- (*orz- ?) “dis-; apart.” and vodiz (*voditi) “to lead, to conduct”, maybe ??? 

[west-slavs]

Hello, great page you have there! I just wanted to ask from which culture do Slavs come from? Lusatian culture? Przeworsk culture? Or something else? Entire people can't just like that pop up out of thin air in 6th century?

Oh my, that’s one of the greatest mysteries from that part of the world! Archeologists and historians still argue about that question. I don’t want to answer it because there are way too many compelling theories but not enough clear evidence yet.

But to put things into perspective: Slavic people inhabit vast lands and are really varied (take the linguistic groups of West / East / South as an example). They surely don’t “come from” one culture only. The interesting question to me is: which culture brought the language that unified the people?

[kutyozh]

I was just doing Anki and came across связь (rus; connection, relation) and was like wait that's awfully close to svaz (ces; union) and even has a similar meaning and lo and behold, связь, svaz and союз* all go back to the same proto indo european root, *h₂enǵʰ-. связь and svaz even share the same proto slavic root, *vę̄zàti.

*looked up союз too bc svaz means союз and i once again went wait that's also kinda close

[kutyozh]

the word "hlad": *exists*

me: what on earth could this mean

dictionary: it means "hunger"

me: ohh right, czech doesnt have "g" (-> h) and also remember liquid metathesis haha so it makes sense that Proto Slavic *goldъ evolved into Russian голод gólod and Czech hlad! :D

2 hours later

the word "hlas": *exists*

me: what on earth could this m-

[lukaszmichal]

I adore the fact that while one of the earliest phonological changes in the Proto-Indo-European language was the elimination of -tk-, -dg-type clusters (because you know, those were unpronounceable even for the users of a language that contained such a banger of a word as *septm̥dḱm̥tós,) some four thousand years later the Croatian language (which had to eliminate the Proto-Slavic -dl-cluster as it was too hard to pronounce) has changed the general Slavic relative pronoun “kto” (who) to “tko” jut for the giggles

[lukaszmichal]

Proto-Indo-European: *ḱorh₂weh₂

Proto-Balto-Slavic: *kárˀwāˀ

Proto-Slavic: *korva

Czech, Bulgarian, Slovene: kráva

Slavs do be having some really hard time deciding whether they want an /o/ vowel in their pholological inventory, huh?