Slavery? origins of the word "Slav" and its relation to "slave"

Thu Sep 21 16:59:10 UTC 2000

Also, if you consider the Russian word "mir" (sorry, I
> don't have the C. keyboard) and today's Slovenian "mir", you see amazing
> connections: in Russian, this word stands for the cosmos, in Slovenian it
> means "peace".

In Russian the word "mir" (in its old meaning) means "peace, world, society,
people".

This is one of those subtleties that are lost in translation. Leo Tolstoy
implied all the meanings in his "Voina i mir".(War and Peace).

In translation only the idea of "peace" is preserved.

Pavel

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