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Notes on Some Russian Wordsand Their Indo-European Relations

Author(s) -

Boris Oguibénine

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

slavânskoe i balkanskoe âzykoznanie

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2658-3372

DOI - 10.31168/2658-3372.2019.2.2

Subject(s) - etymology , verb , linguistics , root (linguistics) , slavic languages , oblique case , alternation (linguistics) , philosophy , mathematics , literature , history , art

1. Etymology of озóрный, озорнóй ‘mischievous, misbehaving'; 2. Variants of мнить ‘to think, imagine' 1. The root element -зор- extracted from the demorphologized (decomposed) verb ра-зор-ить is probably borrowed from Ossetic (Digor) zol ‘skew, oblique' > ‘false, unjust, unfair' after it underwent rhoticism. The proposed hypothesis helps to etymologize the above verb rejecting previous attempts making use of Proto-Slavic preverb *orz combined with the verb *oriti ‘to destroy'. 2. Russian verbs мнить and млеть [if re ecting Indo-European *m(V)R-] are related assuming the alternation мн- /мл-. Both verbs belong to the semantic eld of thinking, imagining and, speci cally, of praying.

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