ВИН
ВИН is a Russian root meaning "guilt." It comes from an Indo-European root which means "pursue" or "cause fear." Modern desendents of the I.-E. root include the Russian война ("war") and the English "vindicate" and "avenge."
Today's word:
виновный - guilty
Today's word:
виновный - guilty
posted by Katya at 10:47 PM
4 Comments:
Sometimes I see words like this and think to myself, "Hey! That's just like in English! How weird!"
I always forget that Russian is also an I-E language. At least it's not an IE language. I'm sure if Russian had to use the Internet, it would use Firefox.
I-E? What meaneth that?
I.-E. = Indo-European (the language family to which most European languages and some languages on the Indian subcontinent belong)
Ahhh, ok, I see. Thanks!
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