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One would want to look at the etymological trees of the words 'slave' and 'share' to see if there are any intersections or common ancestors.

Unfortunately I don't know of any resources that have that capability. Do you?

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Well, they don't. "Slave" comes from the Old Church Slavonic word for Slavs, "Sloveninu," which is probably from the word "slovo," meaning speech, while "share" ultimately comes from the Proto Indo-European root "skar-," meaning to cut.

Dictionary.com says that "share" is from German, and "slave" is from Latin. No common origin.

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