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Proto-Slavic borrowings. Numerous lexemes that are reconstructable for Proto-Slavic have been identified as borrowings from the languages of various tribes that Proto-Slavic speakers interacted with in either prehistoric times or during their expansion when they first appeared in history in the sixth century (the Common Slavic period). [1]
Proto-Balto-Slavic, the ancestor of Proto-Slavic, possessed three vocalic diphthongs: *ai, *au and *ei. In Proto-Slavic, these were monophthongized as follows, with the subscript indicating whether the vowels trigger the first palatalization or the second. *ai > *ě₂, *i₂ - Early Slavic *snaigu > *sněgъ > Serbo-Croatian snijeg
*H₂éwsōs or *H a éusōs (lit. ' the dawn ') is the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European name of the dawn goddess in the Proto-Indo-European mythology. *H₂éwsōs is believed to have been one of the most important deities worshipped by Proto-Indo-European speakers due to the consistency of her characterization in subsequent traditions as well as the importance of the goddess Uṣas in the ...
Illustration of Kolobok from the 1913 A. Medvedev Russian edition (see ) Kolobok ( Cyrillic: колобо́к) is the main character of an East Slavic fairy-tale with the same name, represented as a small yellow spherical bread -like being. The story is often called " Little Round Bun " [1] [2] [3] and sometimes " The Runaway Bun ."
Dybo's law. Dybo's law, or Dybo–Illich-Svitych's law, is a Common Slavic accent law named after Soviet accentologists Vladimir Dybo and Vladislav Illich-Svitych. It was posited to explain the occurrence of nouns and verbs in Slavic languages which are invariantly accented on the inflectional ending.
The East Slavic languages are natively spoken in Eastern Europe, Siberia, and the Russian Far East. It is also used as a lingua franca in the Caucasus and Central Asia . The main East Slavic languages are Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian. [1] Sometimes Rusyn is also made separate, but other times it is said to be a dialect of Ukrainian. [2]
