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Two-Part Personal Names in the Proto-Slavic Language [PDF]
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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On etymology of Proto-Slavic *soja 'jay'
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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Odolan – zagadkowa polska gwarowa nazwa kozłka lekarskiego (Valeriana officinalis L.)
The aim of the article is to investigate the origin of the Polish dialectal name odolan, which refers to valerian (Valeriana officinalis L.). On the basis of historical‑comparative analysis of the Slavic language material, it can be concluded that the ...
Jadwiga Waniakowa
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To the Use of Etymological Methods in the Research of the Origin of Slavs
Introduction. This article is written in the development of the theme of the application of linguistic methods to historical research, more specifically, to the research of the circumstances of the origin of the Slavic ethnic group.
G. M. Telezhko
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From the point of view of linguistics, reconstruction of the ancient conceptions, depicted in the proto-language, allows us to reveal the evolutionary relationship between language units of a proto-language, certain language family, and certain language.
Olena Masliy
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On Serbian Slavic studies from the early 20th century from the perspective of the first volume of Južnoslovenski filolog [PDF]
This paper analyzes the articles published in the first volume of Južnoslovenski Filolog which gives the clear picture of Serbian Slavic studies from the early 20th century. The articles mostly delt with the research of the oldest Slavic written
Dragićević Rajna M.
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Grain legume crop history among Slavic nations traced using linguistic evidence
With Proto-Slavic and other Proto-Indo-European homelands close to each other and on the routes of domestication of the first cultivated grain legumes, now known as pulses, one may assume that the ancestors of the modern Slavic nations knew field beans ...
Aleksandar MIKIĆ
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Shortening, Lengthening, and Reconstruction: Notes on Historical Slavic Accentology
The paper is a part of an ongoing discussion on various topics of historical Slavic accentology with Frederik Kortlandt. The topics discussed in the paper are: the reflex of the Proto-Slavic short neo-acute in Kajkavian; the reflex of pretonic and ...
Mate Kapović
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Charlemagne and All the King’s Men. PS *korlĭ ‘king’?
The article is motivated by the historian F. Curta’s rejection of the traditional etymology of PS *korľĭ and the unsatisfactory treatment of this etymology in the authoritative Ètimologoičeskij slovar’ slavjanskich jazykov ed. by O. N. Trubačov. It shows
Henning Andersen
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Semantics of Proto-Slavic *žiwotъ and its continuants
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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