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  2. Names of Rus', Russia and Ruthenia - Wikipedia

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    The most common theory about the origins of Russians is the Germanic version. The name Rus ', like the Proto-Finnic name for Sweden (*roocci), [2] supposed to be descended from an Old Norse term for "the men who row" (rods-) as rowing was the main method of navigating the rivers of Eastern Europe, and that it could be linked to the Swedish coastal area of Roslagen or Roden, as it was known in ...

  3. List of English words of Russian origin - Wikipedia

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    Menshevik (Russian: меньшеви́к) (from Russian word меньшинство́ menshinstvo, "minority", from ме́ньше men'she "less"; the name Menshevik was coined by Vladimir Lenin when the party was (atypically) in the minority for a brief period) (historical) A member of the non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic ...

  4. Etymological Dictionary of Slavic Languages - Wikipedia

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    Praslavyanskiy leksicheskiy fond, abbreviated ESSJa / Russian: ЭССЯ) is an etymological dictionary of the reconstructed Proto-Slavic lexicon. It has been continuously published since 1974 until present, in 43 volumes, making it one of the most comprehensive in the world.

  5. Eastern Slavic naming customs - Wikipedia

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    The auxiliary stem may be identical to the word stem of the full name (the full name Жанна Zhanna can have the suffixes added directly to the stem Жанн- Zhann-like Жанночка Zhannochka), and most names have the auxiliary stem derived unproductively (the Russian name Михаил Mikhail has the auxiliary stem Миш- Mish ...

  6. History of the Russian language - Wikipedia

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    Russian: Влади́мир [vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr] ⓘ ('Vladimir') (although a familiar form of the name in Russian is still Володя [vɐˈlodʲə]). When a Proto-Slavic sequence like *CerC was accented, the position of the accent in the resulting pleophonic sequence depends on the type of accent (circumflex, acute or neoacute).

  7. Old East Slavic - Wikipedia

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    Old East Slavic [a] (traditionally also Old Russian) was a language (or a group of dialects) used by the East Slavs from the 7th or 8th century to the 13th or 14th century, [4] until it diverged into the Russian and Ruthenian languages. [5]

  8. 24 Free Holiday Word Searches

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    You can print out these free word searches to keep yourself or the kids in your family entertained for everything from St. Patrick’s Day, to the 4th of July, to Christmas. Different words are ...

  9. List of Russian federal subject name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    From its capital, Magadan, which etymology is uncertain: Even word "mongodan" — marine sediment "mongot" — a dried tree, then "mongodan" is a plural of it; Even nickname Magda — "rotten hemp" [5] Moscow: Московская область, Moskovskaya oblast′ Moscow Oblast is the region surrounding Russia's capital Moscow. See Moscow ...