'veritas'-'vera'

[Georges Adassovsky]

At 3:13 PM 9/26/96,  Damijan Vodopivec wrote:

>        I heard on TV that the latin word 'veritas' (truth) has its origin
>in slavic word 'vera'(faith).Is that true? I can't find any information
>which confirm that theory. Any help - details, historical background, etc. -
>would be much appreciated.

Why not ? It seems to be a lot of common roots (some of them certainly
Indo-european ) :
Mater/mat'/mother/mere
Frater/brat/frere/brother
Hortus/gorod/garden/jardin
Sol/solnce/soleil
Luna/luna/lune
Domus/dom
Mare/more/mer
Pastor/pastukh/patre

And certainly many others.
Georges.