Re: Ymir

On Mar 18, 7:46 am, lorad...@xxxxxx wrote:
On Mar 14, 11:38 pm, Dušan Vukotić <dusan.vuko...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mar 15, 2:24 am, Trond Engen <trond...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dušan Vukotić skreiv:

Maybe, it could be interesting to see if the name of Nordic god Ymir
is in any way related to Slavic word mir (Serb. mir peace; Russ. мир
world, peace).

The -r of Ymir is the masculine nominative case ending.

Of course! But Slavic mir is a compound word. Slavic mir (peace) is
obtained from a compound word umirenje (pacification, mollification);
similar umi-rati => mreti (pass away, die).

Very doubtful... as Baltic 'mir' (peace) pre-existed.



There is Serbian word jama
(hole) and jamar (once again JAMA-R) is a man who is digging the holes
and jama is also a synonim for grave (jamar gravedigger). I suppose
that Sanskrit Yamarāja is equal to Serbian jamarenje (digging of
holes). Serbian phrase "završiti u jami" means "to end one's life in a
grave". In fact, Serbian jama is a distant cousin of words as Serbian
zemlja (earth), gomila (heap), kamara (heap), hum (mound) and English
hole and hill. I was talking earlier that a great number of words was
developed from the same basis from which their antonyms had also been
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Latvian
miers peace
mierīgs peaceful
nerunīgs tacit
nomierināt quiet

Lithuanian
taikus peaceful
tylus tacit
tykumas quiet (also raminti, ramus; possible metathesis from Serbian
mirenje reconciliation)

Lithuanian taika (peace) is related to Serbian tiho, tih (quiet,
tacit) and tišina (silence) and Serbian tiho is related to other
Serbian words as disanje (breathing), duh (ghost), duša (soul); cf.
Serbian udahnuti (inspire); iz-dahnuti (expire), utihnuti (to get
quiet).

Would you try to make a similar comparison in Baltic? Maybe you could
begin with Lith. dvasia (soul, ghost) and Latv. dvēsele (soul)?

DV
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