Taranis
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Somecommon Slavic-Latin-Ancient Greek words,some are only distributedamong Souther Slavic area.
I have a question, why do you only look at Old Church Slavic, Greek and Latin, and not at other Slavic languages (and English, which isn't a very good representative of theGermanic languages, due to its abundance of Romance loanwords), and other Indo-European branches? Because if you ignore that you're going to be deceptive towards yourself. Otherwise, you could get a good idea of which words might be borrowings, which words are borrowings into Proto-Slavic, and which ones are true cognates (inherited fromPIE).
Old.Ch.Slav (ognĭ)Latin(ignis) Eng(flame,fire)
This, for example, Sanskrit has a clear cognate "agni" (Agni, in Hinduism, is also the god of fire).
Taranishere are some common Slavic-Latin words that i collect today,mightyou can explain wheter they were borrowings,proto-indo european,causesome are find in ancient Greek,note that i put words from languagesknown to me in this case South Slavic.
Some of them are borrowings, some ofthem, no doubt, are inheritances. Here are some examples:
See also Albanian “pulë”.Lat (pullum) Slav(pile) Eng(chicken)
Common inheritance. See also English "ewe". Welsh “oen” (lamb)Lat(oves) Slav(ovca)Eng(sheep)
Old borrowing from Latin (notice the *a> *o sound shift).Lat (cattus) Slav(kot) Eng(cat)
See also German "Katze", Welsh “cath”.
Lat (Judaeus) Slav(židovinu,židov)Eng(Jew)
This is an ethnic name, it is obviouslya borrowing, from Hebrew "Yehūdīm" (יהודים).
Borrowed from Greek “machaira”(μαχαιρα), probably contracted. The Slavic variant must be a late borrowing because otherwise it would be *mokh (мох).Lat(machaera) Slav(mach)Eng(sword)
Latin(sedis) with meaning(throne, abode, SEAT, chair, Bench, stool) Slav-sedi,sedis (verb*seat down,seat)
Common inheritance. English "seat",German "Sitz". Welsh “sedd”, Old Irish “suide”.
Latin nebula(cloud, mist, fog,vapor, smoke, haze) Slav nebo(sky, heaven, heavens, blue, canopy,sphere)
German “Nebel” (fog, mist). OldNorse “Niflheim” (one of the Nine Worlds in Norse cosmology).
See also Welsh “nef”, Irish “neamh”(heaven). See also Old Irish “neimed” ('sanctuary), and Gaulish“nemeto-”.