Questions tagged [slavic-languages]
Subgroup of the Indo-European languages, spoken in Eastern and Central Europe, the Balkans, and the Northern part of Asia.
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What kind of features support the claim that Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages?
Inspired by this answer to a different question, I ask what kind of features justify a claim that Balto-Slavic languages are closer to Germanic languages than to Indo-Iranian languages.
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Is the Proto-Slavic root *term (dwelling) related to the Proto-Ugric root *tärɜ „open space, room”?
I am curious about the obscure etymology of the Romanian word tărâm (realm, domain, world, geographical space -- usually a poetic word, like in the plural form alte tarâmuri = "other (foreign) ...
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Sound laws in Balto-Slavic and Slavic changes
What are the regular sound laws that explain the modern form of the words in baltic and slavic languages?
I am aware of the centum/satem separation, which already helps to identify a lot of cognates ...
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How were “bratrъ/bratъ” and “sestra” formed in PSl?
The PIE r-stem words seem to have lost the final -r in PSl: OCS mati, dъšti, and how some words which had -r (and -l) in final position preserve this consonant in the middle of words in slavic?
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Proto-Slavic ablaut type
PS решти rešti (to speak) full e-grade / рѣчь rěčĭ (a speech) lengthened ē-grade
PS ĭ PIE i may also be lengthened to PS i PIE ey
But what type of ablaut is бьрати bĭrati (to gather) / берѫ berǫ (I ...
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Does Old Church Slavonic have 'design errors' due to being devised by non-natives?
I know Polish at a nearly-native level and Russian at a basic level.
Old Church Slavonic word meanings sound to me discordant with what I would we expect from those words' morphologies. Some prefixes ...
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What is the type of ablaut?
PS *kysnǫti / *kvasъ PIE ū / wā (wō)
PS *xytiti / *xvatati PIE ū / wā (wō)
PS *xyrěti / *хvоrati ū / wo
? PS *ty / *tvоjь ū / wo
Is it somehow related to kʷetwóres rule?
modern Russian spelling
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What are the descendants of the PIE suffix "-n̥kʷos" in the Czech language if there are any?
Me and my friend would like to know whether there is any PIE suffix "-n̥kʷos" descendats in the czech language, we feel like "-uha" in "ostruha" could be it, in other ...
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Do all languages with pre-positional articles have zero-articles if they don't have post-positional articles?
To clarify, pre-positional articles are the articles positioned before a noun they refer to, like English the or a(n).
Post-positional articles are those positioned after a noun they refer to, like ...
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