Witam wszystkich,
I'd like to know all our Slavic speakers what they think about ethymology of the word "glass".
I know it is:
"szkło" - pronaunnced as "shkuo" in Polish
"sklo" - in Czech and probably in Slovac
"stieklo" - in Russian
Obviously it's easy to notice all those words look similiar and must have the same roots.
But here is my question:
Russian "stieklo" is very similiar to Polish "ściekło" what means "flown down slowly". It is rather difficult to derive "ściekło" from "szkło" but from Russian it seems to have sense.
What I mean: glass normally has a solid state, but when is molten that is a dense liquid that might slowly flown down what just means "ściekać" in Polish.
Maybe in Preslavic language there was a word like "steklo" what is derived from Preslavic "flown down slowly". If yes, it's very probably Preslavic people not only knew glass but could also make it as they name it as "steklo".
I might be of course wrong but for me it's very interesting as I know making glass it is not easy and even Roman had problem to melt it (their glass was not transparent completely and full of air bubles).
I'd like to know all our Slavic speakers what they think about ethymology of the word "glass".
I know it is:
"szkło" - pronaunnced as "shkuo" in Polish
"sklo" - in Czech and probably in Slovac
"stieklo" - in Russian
Obviously it's easy to notice all those words look similiar and must have the same roots.
But here is my question:
Russian "stieklo" is very similiar to Polish "ściekło" what means "flown down slowly". It is rather difficult to derive "ściekło" from "szkło" but from Russian it seems to have sense.
What I mean: glass normally has a solid state, but when is molten that is a dense liquid that might slowly flown down what just means "ściekać" in Polish.
Maybe in Preslavic language there was a word like "steklo" what is derived from Preslavic "flown down slowly". If yes, it's very probably Preslavic people not only knew glass but could also make it as they name it as "steklo".
I might be of course wrong but for me it's very interesting as I know making glass it is not easy and even Roman had problem to melt it (their glass was not transparent completely and full of air bubles).
