Genealogy / Polish and Russian DNA? [52]

I just love these constant attempts to deny any link to Humanity, by claiming to be only realted to such-and-so, or someone was not (whatever ethnicity s/he actaully was) - Poles are realted to Eskimos, Bushmen, Aborigionese and Germans - but much, much closer to Germans - and, as some of you wisely pointed out, more than once, there are mixtures.

Ethnogeographic: I like that word.
Don't loose sight of other factors that make one Polish, or Russian, like religion, language, culture, et c.
But, to be blunt, there's a reason for the Biblical admonition agianst pride: it makes one foolish.

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

Ay, de mi ! All this to say we are upset at the loss of so many.
Why the accident - don't know .
Is Putin a devious and maybe evil plotter ? Of course! But one who wanted a bigger hand in Poland, not conspiracy theories !
Caucacus, I read up on some of the history ( by one of the Dumases ) and quite well understand .
Do I agree with terrorists? No.
Say we find this was an accident: could Russia have avoided it ? Yes!
Should Poland be wary? Of course!
But not trusting Russia won't bring back the dead. And if the plane had crashed elsewhere, where the Russians could never at all be blamed, would you still blame them?

News / Polish President Lech Kaczynski and gov officials die in a plane crash in Russia [686]

I'm only going to say: I saw the news last night, and just heard more today; my condolances to Poland and her people.

Language / Etymology of pan /pani [18]

there are words, from the Indo -European roots, mostly, which are common in all slavic languages; there are of course regional varients, partly because of the three ancient branches - venedi, sclaveni and antes - which can not be proven to be all Slavic per se; Gothic and Scyhtian seem to have universal enfluence on the slvavs, but, as an example, the Bulgar Slavs had Bulgar/Hun enfluence, Khazar enfluence, probably Cuman - then, Thracian, Vlach, Greek, Macedonian, Illyrian , Latin, more Turkish, et c. - while the Poles, Sorbians, Czechs, Slovaks, Kasubians, and ? Selesians - fell under different enfluences, having moved into former Germanic regions, and being in contact with the Franks and others.

Language / Etymology of pan /pani [18]

Well, thanks to all who replied, that explains why the common Slavic form isn't used; alas, for my own purposes, that the essencial meaning dosn't change.