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How to say "peace" in European languages (o.mastodon.au)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Not really, that extra letter is a noun case, it serves grammar only. I guess the word all (всем) is what helps distinguish between the meanings here. It belongs to the semantic field of mir as in the world, while Russians don't use it together with mir as in peace.