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Weird twist: Slavic languages use words very similar to "domus" for "house", for example, "dom" in Polish or "дом" in Ukrainian.
by wrzuteczka 2y ago
Weird twist: Slavic languages use words very similar to "domus" for "house", for example, "dom" in Polish or "дом" in Ukrainian.
- Muromec 2y agoThat's дім, not дом, but of course it's "вдома" and "у домі" for reasons.
- Wytwwww 2y agoAlso Ancient Greek, Albanian, Sanskrit, Ancient Iranian etc. Supposedly even "timber" (in English) is somehow derived from the the same root ..
- int_19h 2y agoSlavic is somewhat more conservative and still has a bunch of archaic proto-Slavic and even proto-Indo-European stuff in it. Even most of the basic swearwords are still readily recognizable from PIE, which I always found particularly amusing: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/xuj%D1%8C https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/x... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/pizda https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/p... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/jebati https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/j... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/bl%C4%99d%D1%8C https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/b... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/gov%D1%8Cno https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/g...