Russian Words for Forest Trees: A Lexicological and Etymological Study
Cooper provides a lexicological and etymological study of two main types of forest trees in the Russian language: conifers and broad-leaf trees. Cooper shows that "many tree names have changed the object that they signify over time," due, in some cases, because the original speakers migrat...
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| Veröffentlicht in: | Australian Slavonic and East European studies 2010-01, Vol.24 (1-2), p.41-71 |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Cooper provides a lexicological and etymological study of two main types of forest trees in the Russian language: conifers and broad-leaf trees. Cooper shows that "many tree names have changed the object that they signify over time," due, in some cases, because the original speakers migrated to places where the tree to which a particular word first referred was not present. Proto-Indo-European is the ultimate origin of many of these tree names. Adapted from the source document |
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| ISSN: | 0818-8149 |