Nav'
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The Naw in Polish
and Nav' in other Slavic languages
are ghosts or the souls of persons that had met a tragic or premature death, particularly unchristened babies.
The term descends from PIE
*navus ("corpse"), being cognate to Gothic
naus ("dead"), Old Prussian nowis ("corpse"), and Tocharian
naut ("to perish").
Polish language
Polish is a language of the Lechitic subgroup of West Slavic languages, used throughout Poland and by Polish minorities in other countries...
and Nav' in other Slavic languages
Slavic languages
The Slavic languages , a group of closely related languages of the Slavic peoples and a subgroup of Indo-European languages, have speakers in most of Eastern Europe, in much of the Balkans, in parts of Central Europe, and in the northern part of Asia.-Branches:Scholars traditionally divide Slavic...
are ghosts or the souls of persons that had met a tragic or premature death, particularly unchristened babies.
The term descends from PIE
Pie
A pie is a baked dish which is usually made of a pastry dough casing that covers or completely contains a filling of various sweet or savoury ingredients....
*navus ("corpse"), being cognate to Gothic
Gothic language
Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. It is known primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th-century copy of a 4th-century Bible translation, and is the only East Germanic language with a sizable Text corpus...
naus ("dead"), Old Prussian nowis ("corpse"), and Tocharian
Tocharian
Tocharian may refer to:* Tocharians, an ancient people who inhabited the Tarim Basin in Central Asia* Tocharian languages, two Indo-European languages spoken by those people...
naut ("to perish").
See also
- Jav, Prav and NavJav, Prav and NavYav , Prav and Nav are three worlds described in the Book of Veles. References to them became popular among Ukrainians and Russian neopagans. All three combine into Triglav that governs the Universe....
- Kostroma (folklore)
- Naw, word