lilium-bosniacum:

feralmermaids:

lilium-bosniacum:

the russian word мир means both world and peace

and the word свет means light, but it can also mean world. like if i wanted to say “the end of the world” or that they travelled “around the world”, if i wanted to tell someone that i love her “more than anything in the world”, i would use the word for light.
when a person is born you use the word for light (they emerge into the world), to give birth is to bring someone into the light, into the world.

this left me mind-blown because i never made the connection between these two words in my native tongue (svijet and svjetlo) so here are these words in all other slavic languages: 

belarusian: world - свет / light - святло
ukrainian: world - світ / light - світло
polish: world - świat / light - światło
czech: world - svět / light - světlo  
slovak: world - svet / light - svetlo
slovene: world - svet / light - svetloba
croatian: world - svijet / light - svjetlo
bosnian: world - svijet / light - svjetlo
serbian:  world - свет  / light - светло
macedonian: world - свет / light - светлина
bulgarian: world - свят / light - светлина