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Proto-Indo-European verb and Slavic etymology [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2010 In Balto-Slavic, the large scope of stem variation within the verbal system inherited from Proto-Indo-European was reduced, on the paradigmatic level, to few apophonic verbs, reduplicated and nasal presents, but the former variety left traces in the ...
Loma Aleksandar
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A Note on the Balto-Slavic and Indo-European Background of the Proto-Slavic Adjective *svętъ ‘Holy’
Studia Ceranea, 2017 The standard etymological explanation of the Proto-Slavic adjective *svętъ ‘holy, saint’ – a word of extreme literary, cultural and religious importance in the Slavic world – concentrates on the formal match with Lithuanian šventas ‘id.’ and Avestan ...
Marek Majer
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Proto-Slavic *kŭrkŭ: Semantics and Etymology
Slovene, 2021 The article is devoted to the semantics of the Proto-Slavic word *kъrkъ, whose descendants have a wide range of meanings from ‘throat’ to ‘back’. The analysis presented shows that the Proto-Slavic word can be most probably reconstructed to mean ‘vertebra
Mikhail N. Saenko
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Toponyms with the base *baz [PDF]
Zbornik Radova Filozofskog Fakulteta u Prištini, 2015 During the research, it has been considered which toponyms on the Balkan Peninsula are named after the plant elder (Proto-Slavic base *baz). Using etymology dictionaries, as well as the list of settlements of the Republic of Serbia, we have found twenty ...
Nikić Biljana V.
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The Roman city of Doclea is a key archaeological site of Montenegro, valued for its impressive remains and its role in the nation's cultural identity within European and the Mediterranean history. Doclea was the second‐largest city in the province of Roman Dalmatia, a municipium created in the first century ad and named after the Illyrian ...
Tatjana Koprivica +5 more
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The reconstruction of synonymous relations in the Proto-Slavic vocabulary based on the Serbo-Croatian dialect material [PDF]
Južnoslovenski Filolog, 2020 The paper deals with the analysis of synonymous words of Protoslavic origin that distinguish different Serbo-Croatian dialects (the lexemes are excerpted from The Questionnaire for the Serbo-Croatian Dialectological Atlas). Some of these lexemes
Yakushkina Ekaterina I.
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The early evolutionary history of modern domestic horses (Equus caballus/Equus ferus caballus), known as the DOM2 lineage, is well documented due to numerous archaeological and ancient DNA (aDNA) studies. Although many uncertainties remain in the domestication timeline, current evidence suggests that the domestication of modern horses began in
Johanna Honka +14 more
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On the relative chronology of Slavic accentual developments [PDF]
, 2010 Last year Georg Holzer proposed a relative chronology of accentual developments in Slavic (2005). Here I shall compare his chronology with the one I put forward earlier (1975, 1989a, 2003) and discuss the differences. For the sake of convenience, I first
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Tracing the prodigal son's voyage
Linguistica Brunensia, 2020 The author completes Blažek's extensive etymological analysis of the Indo-European word for 'son'. The article focuses on the behavior of the word from the accentological and paradigmatic point of view in Balto-Slavic and separate Slavic languages.
Roman Sukač
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Evolution of photoperiod insensitivity drove the westward expansion of broomcorn millet
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.This research highlights how ancient farming communities adapted crops to challenging environments, enabling the spread of agriculture across Eurasia. By demonstrating that broomcorn millet evolved reduced sensitivity to day‐length, the study explains how this crop could support food production in regions with short growing seasons and long summer days.
Giedre Motuzaite Matuzeviciute +4 more
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