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How to say "peace" in European languages
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The Germanic one looks like Freedom. Is it?
What language family is Pokój? I thought Polish was a Slavic language, but they don't say Mir.
Béke is Uralic? But also Turks use it?
Where is Taika from?
I NEED MORE INFO!!!!!!
Pokój is also Slavic. In Russian related word means something closer to "calmness" and sometimes has overlapping meaning with English "peace". Like "peace" in "peace and quite" for example will be translated with "pokoj", while "mir" in the sense of "peace" means only the opposite of "war".
I assume colors show the original meaning of the word, not the language family.
For Turkish and Hungarian, there used to be a proposed link between finno-ungric languages and turkic languages, but it seems that modern linguistics rejects that and they states that any similarities are due to contact alone.
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.