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How to say "peace" in European languages (o.mastodon.au)
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[-] jarfil@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Old Polish does have a "mir" with a sense of "peace", but also a sense of "respect / ad-mir-ation".

The word itself comes from: Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mirъ

...with nice things like Old Persian 𐎷𐎰𐎼, and less nice modern things like the case of Mitrofan the bear.

this post was submitted on 21 Oct 2023
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