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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by pashky on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @08:10PM (#29988563)
Linguistic sources say that svet/svit/light/sunrise/world and videt/see/meet have completely different proto-indo-european roots - kweyt and weyd respectively.

So nice theory, but no. “Svid” is not a root here, it’s “s”+”vid”.

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Re:Do svidaniya, Igor, and thank you for Nginx by josefrichter on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @11:02AM (#29995370)
interesting, didn't know that! can you point me to those resources to learn more, please? fascinating topic for me.
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