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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.
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 ...
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.
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Liberman was born in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) on 10 March 1937. His father was killed in action in 1941. He graduated from Leningrad State Herzen Pedagogical Institute (now the Herzen State Pedagogical University) in 1959, and then taught English for three years at a boarding school for underprivileged children in the Leningrad region.
The first book printed in the "civil" script, 1708 Russian language in the Russian Empire according to the 1897 census The political reforms of Peter the Great were accompanied by a reform of the alphabet, and achieved their goal of secularization and modernization .
Old Russian sources also mention Rozhanitsa as a single person, usually in the pair of Rod and Rodzanica. [24] An example of such a source is the 12th-century chronicle Gesta regum Anglorum , which describes the cult of Svetovid among the Slavs of the Elbe , comparing him to the Roman Fortuna and Greek Týchē .
The Russian translation of Vasmer's dictionary – with extensive commentaries by Oleg Trubachyov – was printed in 1964–1973. As of 2015, it remains the most authoritative source for Slavic etymology. The Russian version is available on Sergei Starostin's Tower of Babel web site. [citation needed]