You can also get from "world" to "word" by making
this round-the-word trip:
world - word - Lord - Nord - nod -
God - Gog - bog -
dog - log - slog - sloy - slon - slom - slam - Slav - slava - sliva -
slova - slovo
I'm not a Tiger Woods of word golf. There could be
less words between world and slovo (in fact, I
deliberately chose a longer route and made more strokes than
necessary). God means "year",
Bog "God", dog "Great Dane",
log "broad gully", slog "syllable" or "style",
sloy "layer", slon "elephant" or "bishop"
(chess-man), slom "demolition", slava
"fame" or "glory", sliva
"plum", slova "words" or "of
word", slovo "word" in Russian.
Btw., in Vladimir Solov'yov's fable Efiopy
i brevno ("The Ethiopians and a Log") a
log is worshipped as if it were
God (Russian Bog). The name
Solov'yov comes from solovey
("nightingale"). Solovey = slovo + ey (to her); slovo =
volos (hair); volos - golos (voice) -
kolos (ear, spike); golos = Logos, kolos =
sokol (falcon)
Alexey Sklyarenko