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An interesting and useful Russian word I came across today is \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442<\/strong> [sv\u02b2et], which means light, and also lights, lighting, day, radiance, power, electricity, world and (high) society.<\/p>\n It comes from the Old East Slavic \u0441\u0432\u0463\u0442\u044a<\/em> \u200e(sv\u011bt\u016d – light; world), from Proto-Slavic *sv\u011bt\u044a<\/em> \u200e(light; world), from the Proto-Balto-Slavic *\u015bwaitas<\/em>, from the Proto-Indo-European *\u1e31woytos \/ *\u1e31weytos<\/em> \u200e(bright; shine), from *\u1e31wey-<\/em>.<\/p>\n Related words in other Slavic languages include: Belarusian: \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442<\/em> \u200e(world), Ukrainian: \u0441\u0432\u0456\u0442<\/em> \u200e(world, universe), Bulgarian \u0441\u0432\u044f\u0442<\/em> \u200e(world, earth, universe), Macedonian: \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442<\/em> \u200e(world), Slovene: sv\u1eb9\u0311t (sacred, holy), Czech: sv\u011bt<\/em> (world), Polish: \u015bwiat<\/em> (world), and Slovak: svet<\/em> (world) and svetlo<\/em> (light).<\/p>\n Words for white in Germanic languages come from the same PIE root: such as white in English, wei\u00df<\/em> in German, wit<\/em> in Dutch, hvit<\/em> in Norwegian, vit<\/em> in Swedish and hvid<\/em> in Danish.<\/p>\n Here are some examples of related words and usage:<\/p>\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0430\u0442\u044c = to get\/grow light The name \u0421\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0430<\/em> (Svetlana) also comes from the same root.<\/p>\n Sources: Reverso<\/a>, Wiktionary<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An interesting and useful Russian word I came across today is \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 [sv\u02b2et], which means light, and also lights, lighting, day, radiance, power, electricity, world and (high) society. It comes from the Old East Slavic \u0441\u0432\u0463\u0442\u044a \u200e(sv\u011bt\u016d – light; world), from Proto-Slavic *sv\u011bt\u044a \u200e(light; world), from the Proto-Balto-Slavic *\u015bwaitas, from the Proto-Indo-European *\u1e31woytos \/ *\u1e31weytos […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100,102,104,107,116,10,31,39,45,52,60,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-czech","category-danish","category-dutch","category-english","category-etymology","category-german","category-language","category-norwegian","category-polish","category-proto-indo-european","category-russian","category-slovak","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043b\u044b\u0439 = bright, light, lucid
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0438\u043b\u044c\u043d\u0438\u043a = lamp
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0442\u044c = to shine
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043b\u0435\u0442\u044c = to lighten
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0438\u0301\u043b\u043e = heavenly body; luminary
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u043e\u0444\u043e\u0301\u0440 = traffic light
\n – \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0447\u0430\u0301 = candle; spark plug; suppository
\n – \u0434\u043d\u0435\u0432\u043d\u043e\u0301\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u200e = daylight
\n – \u0441\u043e\u0301\u043b\u043d\u0435\u0447\u043d\u044b\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u200e = sunshine, sunlight
\n – \u044f\u0301\u0440\u043a\u0438\u0439 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 = bright light
\n – \u0441\u043a\u043e\u0301\u0440\u043e\u0441\u0442\u044c \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0301\u0442\u0430 = speed of light
\n – \u043f\u0440\u0438 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0435 \u043b\u0443\u043d\u044b\/\u0441\u0432\u0435\u0447\u0438 = by moonlight\/candlelight
\n – \u0432 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u0435 = in the light of
\n – \u043d\u0438 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 \u043d\u0438 \u0437\u0430\u0440\u044f = at the crack of dawn
\n – \u0447\u0443\u0442\u044c \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 = at daybreak
\n – \u043f\u043e\u044f\u0432\u0438\u0301\u0442\u044c\u0441\u044f \u043d\u0430 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442\u200e = to be born (“to arrive in the light\/world”)
\n – \u0432\u044b\u0445\u043e\u0434\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0432 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 = to be published (“to face the light\/world”)
\n – \u043f\u0440\u043e\u043b\u0438\u0432\u0430\u0442\u044c \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 \u043d\u0430 \u0447\u0442\u043e = to shed\/throw light on sth
\n – \u0442\u043e\u0442 \u0441\u0432\u0435\u0442 = the next world<\/p>\n