https://russian.stackexchange.com/questions/6985/what-is-the-etymology-of-восемь-andдевять excuse me but are these absolute clowns expecting me to believe that the reason "vosem'" is like that is because octo is 8 after latin/greek/pie? like they looked at the latin fucking letters and were like "well that says 'OSMO' so lets call it OSeM'" then later added the V sound to the begining for no decernable reason? no one was around to say in redditor tone "um actually it's pronounced 'OKTO' not 'OSMO'" where's the guy who programmed this simulation? I want to speak to the manager.
>>2 your posts are not conducive of discussion, they are extremely niche statements of facts not open ended questions or topics for conversation. You could have made a post subject like "fun etymologies" and your op could have been "what are you guy's favourite weird etymologies? mine is x. Here are some resources for you if you're interested in this subject but don't know where to start: "
4 Name: Anonymous2024-06-27 07:36
Bосемь is a predicate of Proto-Slavic *osmь, which itself predicates from Proto-Indo-European *oḱtṓw. They are right in the terms of Latin and Greek octo/ οκτώ and восемь having the same etymological roots.
5 Name: Anonymous2025-04-23 15:45
I assumd the V came from a w like OS...>wos... (Like homo>uomo in Italian) and tjen velarised, and the the e was probably added in the sale manner it is added in the -ism suffix in English
excuse me but are these absolute clowns expecting me to believe that the reason "vosem'" is like that is because octo is 8 after latin/greek/pie? like they looked at the latin fucking letters and were like "well that says 'OSMO' so lets call it OSeM'" then later added the V sound to the begining for no decernable reason? no one was around to say in redditor tone "um actually it's pronounced 'OKTO' not 'OSMO'"
where's the guy who programmed this simulation? I want to speak to the manager.