Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/mirъ

Etymology
From, from , its Baltic cognates are: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, compare also 🇨🇬. There may be two Indo-European roots involved, and. Root-cognates (with different suffixes) include, with the former: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 (Old Persian, and Sanskrit ); with the latter: 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

The dual meaning of "peace" and "world" is unique to Slavic, and scholarly opinion is divided on whether this is a purely semantic development (via a meaning of "pact, friendship" to "community, society" to "ecumene, inhabited world") or alternatively an early conflation of two words, with the meaning "world" derived only from the root meaning "to bind", and the meaning "peace" derived from the root meaning "gentle, mild". Possibly *mirъ meaning world derives from earlier (great/big -> world). Compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) peace
 * 2) world

Derived terms

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Descendants

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