Timeline for Why do some Russian words look similar to English ones?
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| Dec 7, 2021 at 13:39 | vote | accept | Sam | ||
| Dec 6, 2021 at 18:22 | comment | added | J... | @Quassnoi Indeed. I guess it could be an informal borrowing or sharing - passed by word of mouth, etc. It's a common and important enough word (the moon) that it would have been something discussed reasonably frequently, so a convergent evolution seems reasonable given extensive contact between the languages over hundreds of years. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 18:15 | comment | added | Quassnoi♦ | @J...: for some reason I was sure that it was an early borrowing from Latin. But then I looked it up in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages and it specifically mentions that it would have ended up as лына should it have been borrowed from Latin, because of the long u | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 17:41 | comment | added | J... | @Anixx Sort of native - it derives from the same common ancestor as latin "luna", namely the proto-indo-european lówksneh. Interesting, though, that Latin and Slavic both somewhat independently evolved to the same pronunciation, and around the same time. | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 13:53 | comment | added | Quassnoi♦ | @Anixx: you're right, I'll remove it | |
| Dec 6, 2021 at 13:52 | history | edited | Quassnoi♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 6, 2021 at 11:00 | comment | added | Anixx | Луна is not a borrowing, it is a native Slavic word. | |
| Dec 5, 2021 at 21:40 | history | edited | Quassnoi♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 5, 2021 at 20:13 | history | answered | Quassnoi♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |