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Dedovshchina (Russian: дедовщи́на) (from Russian ded, "grandfather", Russian army slang equivalent of "gramps", meaning soldiers in their third or fourth half-year of conscription, + suffix -shchina – order, rule, or regime; hence "rule of the grandfathers") A system of hazing in the Soviet and Russian armies.
Habēre, on the other hand, is from PIE *gʰabʰ 'to give, to receive', and hence cognate with English give and German geben. [5] Likewise, English much and Spanish mucho look similar and have a similar meaning, but are not cognates: much is from Proto-Germanic *mikilaz < PIE *meǵ-and mucho is from Latin multum < PIE *mel-.
The set of possible cognate pairings was then analyzed as a whole for predictable regularities. [13] Words were separated into groupings based on how many language families appeared to be cognate for the word. Among the 188 words, cognate groups ranged from 1 (no cognates) to 7 (all languages cognate) with a mean of 2.3 ± 1.1.
The Slavic languages, also known as the Slavonic languages, are Indo-European languages spoken primarily by the Slavic peoples and their descendants. They are thought to descend from a proto-language called Proto-Slavic, spoken during the Early Middle Ages, which in turn is thought to have descended from the earlier Proto-Balto-Slavic language, linking the Slavic languages to the Baltic ...
Latin is usually the most common source of loanwords in these languages, such as in Italian, Spanish, French, Portuguese, etc., [27] [28] and in some cases the total number of loans may even outnumber inherited terms [29] [30] (although the learned borrowings are less often used in common speech, with the most common vocabulary being of ...
Mark Ruffalo has starred in dozens of movies, but when it comes to fan favorites, one stands out the most. “People fell in love” with 13 Going on 30, he recently told PEOPLE.And the feeling is ...
Hello - Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)/ Привет (priviet) How are you? - как дела? (Kak dela) What's your name? - Как вас зовут?
Old East Slavic сънъ /ˈsŭnŭ/ > Russian сон [son] ⓘ "sleep (nom. sg.)", cognate with Lat. somnus Old East Slavic съна /sŭˈna/ > Russian сна [sna] ⓘ "of sleep (gen. sg.)" The loss of the yers caused the phonemicization of palatalized consonants and led to geminated consonants and a much greater variety of consonant clusters ...