Latin and Slavonic for `moon'

[Robert Orr]

You should also check Golab's "The origins of the Slavs - A linguist's
View", which has discussion of Italic-Slavic parallels (p. 121 for the luna
example), although one might argue wth the analysis).

At 04:04 PM 4/2/99 GMT, you wrote:

>{luna} means "moon" in Latin and also in Russian. But Palmer's book "The
>Latin Language" says that Latin {luna} < *{louksna:} [= "the white object",
>after the old IE word *{ma:n-} or similar became taboo due to superstition].
>Is the Russian form a loanword from Latin (which seems unlikely) or parallel
>evolution?

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