House: Kuća and Casa. What are their origins?

[Dacul]

Here is one even more weird:
From where did the word used for anchor in serbo-croatian came?
In serbo-croatian and in macedonian you tell an anchor : sidro and in slovenian you tell sidra.
Is not found in any other slavic languages and I could not find it in indo-european languages either.

[east]

Here is one even more weird:
From where did the word used for anchor in serbo-croatian came?
In serbo-croatian and in macedonian you tell an anchor : sidro and in slovenian you tell sidra.
Is not found in any other slavic languages and I could not find it in indo-european languages either.

Sidra is a given name meaning "of the stars" or "like a star".The name Sidrah is also an Islamic name, short for Sidrat al-Muntaha, a holy tree at the end of the seventh heaven up

[Comte Arnau]

Sidus sideris means a constellation of stars in Latin. From which, the adjective sideral.

[Dacul]

Sidus sideris means a constellation of stars in Latin. From which, the adjective sideral.

Ok and how the anchor got to be called as sidro/sidra in some south slavic languages?
A weird thing,old greeks were sailing by stars,they knew how to sail in open sea from the stars.

[Dacul]

Sidra is a given name meaning "of the stars" or "like a star".The name Sidrah is also an Islamic name, short for Sidrat al-Muntaha, a holy tree at the end of the seventh heaven up

The word does not have turkish sonority which could be the only source from where it could have be in south slavic languages.

[Comte Arnau]

Ok and how the anchor got to be called as sidro/sidra in some south slavic languages?
A weird thing,old greeks were sailing by stars,they knew how to sail in open sea from the stars.

I commented that rather on what East had mentioned about the name.

Latin sider apparently comes from a proto-IE root *sweid meaning 'bright, to shine'. Still, I don't know if sidro can derive from that.

[Dacul]

Here a cognate between old thracian language and serbo-croatian,kept only in serbo-croatian:
melon - serbo-croatian dinja .
Is cognate with dinupula which means wild pumpkin,but sonority of dinja is clearly thracian.

[Arthur Scharrenhans]

Ok and how the anchor got to be called as sidro/sidra in some south slavic languages?
A weird thing,old greeks were sailing by stars,they knew how to sail in open sea from the stars.

one should never forget that chance resemblances between languages are quite common...