Medjugorje?

Douglas G. Wilson douglas at NB.NET
Wed Oct 3 18:29:08 UTC 2001


>Does Slavic "medju" point back to the same IE root as Latin/Romance
>"meso"/"medio"?

It certainly looks as though it should reflect the same IE *medhyo-, which
persists in similar senses in virtually all IE languages, I think.

Why Serbocroatian "medju" versus "mezhdu" or so in other Slavic languages
(including Bulgarian and Old Church Slavonic, apparently), I don't know.

-- Doug Wilson



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