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On Proto-Slavic Oath Formulas [PDF]
Slovene, 2012 This paper deals with Slavic oath formulas containing the phrases ‘stand firm’ and ‘hold firm’, found mostly in peace treaties. The analysis carried out on the rich corpus of Old Serbian charters written in the vernacular and followed by a comparison ...
Jasmina Grković-Major
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On etymology of Proto-Slavic *soja 'jay'
Opera slavica, 2022 This paper represents a new attempt at determining the origin of the Proto-Slavic *soja 'jay'. Given the jay's habit of sowing acorns and other large seeds, and, consequently, the abundance of words denoting jay originating from words meaning acorn, oak,
Stefan Stojanović
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Notes on three Proto-Slavic borrowings
Vilnius University Open Series, 2021 The Proto-Slavic etyma *dъska, *misa, and *bļudo (*bļudъ), which are semantically related, are generally regarded as borrowings, but there is no consensus on the exact origins of these nouns. Following surveys of the Old Church Slavic and Gothic evidence
Rick Derksen
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Are There Traces of a Finno-Ugric Substratum in Proto-Slavic?
Slavistična Revija, 2020 The author discusses the problem of possible Uralic borrowings in Proto-Slavic, hypothesizing that the Proto-Slavs in their homeland (presumably located in Eastern Europe) were neighbours of some unknown Finno-Ugric tribes.
Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak
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Semantics of Proto-Slavic *žiwotъ and its continuants
Linguistica Brunensia, 2021 The article aims to analyse the change in somatic meanings of continuants of the Proto-Slavic word *žiwotъ and answer the question whether *žiwotъ designated a part of the body as early as in the Proto-Slavic period.
Michail Nikolajevič Sajenko
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WORD-FORMATION FEATURES OF PROTO-SLAVIC SOMATISMS [PDF]
Вісник університету ім. А. Нобеля. Серія Філологічні науки, 2021 The naming of body parts, acting as one of the most noticeable layers of vocabulary, which reflects the knowledge of native speakers about the world around them, and their idea of both their own body and the body of animals, is the subject of constant ...
Ilona M. Prykhodko, Svitlana V. Podplota
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The Proto-Slavic Name for the Gingiva: Difficulties of Reconstruction
Славянский мир в третьем тысячелетииAlthough in most Slavic languages gum is denoted by the descendants of a single Proto-Slavic word, the details of the reconstruction of this word remain a matter of debate, and a number of contradictory hypotheses can be found in the scientific ...
Mikhail N. Saenko
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The Etymology of the Proto-Slavic *jarьmъ, *jarьmo ‘yoke’
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2010 The article discusses the etymology of the Proto-Slavic word *jarьmъ, *jarьmo, which denotes a yoke that yokes two oxen. It is argued that this word reflects the original plural to the word for ‘arm, shoulder’ in Balto-Slavic.
Tijmen Pronk
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The loss of *g befor e *m in Proto-Slavic
Rasprave Instituta za Hrvatski Jezik i Jezikoslovlje, 2010 This paper proposes a new sound rule for Proto-Slavic, according to which *g (from PIE *g, *gw, *gh, and *gwh) was lost before *m. This development was posterior to Winter’s law and the merger of voiced and aspirated stop in Slavic.
Ranko Matasović
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Two-Part Personal Names in the Proto-Slavic Language [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper deals with the Proto-Slavic two-part personal names reconstructed in the Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages (EDSL), vols. 1–42. Indo-European by their origin, these names retained their use among all Slavs even after the adoption of ...
Svetlana M. Tolstaya
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