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From: "Leon Stevens" <>
Subject: Re: Gear at Grunwald
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 10:15:34 -0500


Common Slavic did not begin to evolve into early modern Slavic languages until the 10th century, and later in some regions. Slavic scholars argue that "hlaef" ("loaf") was borrowed from Slavic, and not the reverse. Slavic "dom" comes directly from Indo-European, and is merely cognate with Latin "domus," from which German "Dom" ("cathedral") is derived.

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My philological knowledge of philology is also derivative and it does
seem quit a leap from "haus" to "dom". "Stall" ("der Stand" in modern
German) to "stajenny" seems much less so and the word that was
borrowed for bread was that for loaf ("der Laib" in modern German)
rather than "brot". The modern German word "Dom" means "cathedral;
dome, cupola". A layman's guess would say that this word came from
Latin but perhaps the word was passed on to the Slavs. I seem to
recall that we have the word "beer" from Sumerian!
Remember, the borrowings were from Old Germanic to Common or Old
Slavic and German and Polish have moved on from their respective
roots. My source was Gijmbutas as cited by Mallory.
Cordially,
John (Rohde).
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 07:52:03 -0000, you wrote:



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