@Meaningness and not knowing much more Greek. Figured maybe a function of salience of words as a sort of incantation, plus...
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@St_Rev@simplic10 Uh, yes, of course; I was thinking of *pagan* liturgical Latin… -
@Meaningness@St_Rev Predecessor to Rus, Ukr, Bel was Old Church Slavonic. Many more phonemes than modern langs, incl nasal sounds -
@Meaningness@St_Rev which are somewhat preserved in Polish. Anyway pseudo OCS is used in Orth church but pronounced much like modern langs. -
@Meaningness@St_Rev As for old langs, you'd be surprised what can be reconstructed from rhymes, descs of 1 lang in another... -
@Meaningness@St_Rev ...& also certain vowel and consonant shifts only go 1 direcn usually, which allows to postulate Common Ancestor sound
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