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Языки Волго-Камского языкового ареала как источник русской исторической диалектологии
Languages of the Volga-Kama language area as a source of Russian historical dialectology

Author(s): Klára Agyagási
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Geography, Regional studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Morphology, Sociolinguistics, Eastern Slavic Languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: the phonetic representation as [iḙ] of Old Novg. /ě/; phases of morphological change of substantives with stem *-й;

Summary/Abstract: In the article, the Chuvash dialectal word măyăx ‘furs, sack’ and the dialectal variants of the Cheremis word čerke ‘church’ are analyzed. The Chuvash word comes from an Old Novg. form [miḙx] < Old Russian /měх/ of the 14th century, the Cheremis dialectal variants are borrowings of an Old Russian north dialectal form *cerky, where the donor form represents an intermediate phase of change сыку > *cerky > cerkov'.

  • Issue Year: 53/2008
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 267-274
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian