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

[Alina Israeli]

> in Russian, this word stands for the cosmos, in Slovenian it
>means "peace". So the ancients must have perceived the cosmos - the starr
>sky - as a place that is peace+ful.

Those were two different words at least spellingwise: one had a dotted i (i
desjaterichnoe) and the other i we enjoy these days (i vos'merichnoe).

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Alina Israeli
LFS, American University                phone:  (202) 885-2387
4400 Mass. Ave., NW                     fax:    (202) 885-1076
Washington, DC 20016

aisrael at american.edu

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