LL-L "Etymology" 2002.07.08 (04) [E]

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From: globalmoose at t-online.de (Global Moose Translations)
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2002.07.08 (01) [E]

> > But, for example: Engl.: "liver" and "live", Upper German: "Leben" and
> > "Leber"- the difference is just one letter. Only a matter of
> > coincidence? I
> > don't think so!
>
> This is the case not only with Germanic languages. For example in
> Russian:
> zhivot - now meaning "belly" had once the meaning "life" (zhizn' -
> "life",
> zhit' - "to live") and as far as I know still has that meaning in
> Polish.

Hmmm...
if we take this a few steps further - then "heart" is only one letter
away
from "hear", and "lung" only one letter from "lunge"...
which should tell us something, but what?? :-)

What Mike wrote reminds me of the German expression "aus dem Bauch
heraus
leben", "to live from within one's belly", i.e. live life intuitively
and to
the fullest. Seems to be a pan-European concept.

Greetings,
Gabriele Kahn

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From: "Leslie Decker" <leslie at volny.cz>
Subject: LL-L "Etymology" 2002.07.08 (01) [E]

Well, I don't know about Polish but zivot (zhivot) definitely means
'life'
in Czech.  And the words for stomach ('zaludek' or 'bricho') are
completely
different.  Guess the Russians associated 'life' and 'stomach' more than
the Western Slavs!
Leslie Decker

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