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HISTORY THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

HISTORY THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY. Professor Viktor V.Kabakchi http://vorto.ru/statyi/istoriya-v-zerkale-oksfordskogo-slovarya-ili-opyt-leksikograficheskoy-istoriografii. Multilingualism of the OED. Latin 40304 French 23151 Greek 8145 German 3479

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HISTORY THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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  1. HISTORY THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS OF THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY Professor Viktor V.Kabakchi http://vorto.ru/statyi/istoriya-v-zerkale-oksfordskogo-slovarya-ili-opyt-leksikograficheskoy-istoriografii

  2. Multilingualism of the OED Latin 40304 French23151 Greek8145 German3479 Italian 2077 Spanish1728 Japanese501 Russian400 Portuguese 393 Chinese 325 Czech 22 Ukrainian 2

  3. EARLY RUSSIANISMS in the OED <>Rus(a1525) <> boyar (1555) <> czar| tsar (1555) <> verst (1555) <> Muscovite (1555) <> kvass (a1556) <> rouble (1557) <> Crim (c1560) <> pristav (1568) <> voivode (1570)

  4. Richard Chancellor (d.1556) => the Muscovy Company • the Rus se [a1525 OED1 Online 2013 Russ] • The seals, walrosses, and cod, caught in the Russian seas, are likewise very important articles. [1796, Amer. Universal Geogr.; OED1 Online 2013 walrus].

  5. Unknown words in Muscovy They worship the Sunne, the Ollen, and the Losy and such like. [1613, S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. xvii. 431; OED1 Online 2013 losh]

  6. Fish • beluga (1591) • sevruga(1591) • starlet (1591) • omul(1706) • osetr(1753) • nerka(1764) • gorbuscha(1784) The Razumovskiy carries, among former rarities, smoked or cured sturgeon ... and salmon (syomga, gorbusha, keta, and nerka). [2002, Harper's Mag.; OED1 Online 2013: nerka, n.].

  7. Morse vs walrus? There are also a fishes teeth, which fish is called a Morsse. (a1556 R. Chancellor in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1598) I. 237; OED Online 2013 morse). The morse (walrus), an aquatic mammal of the same order as the seal. [1992YaleFrench Stud. No. 81. 13; OED Online 2013 morse] Ikravs caviar(e): The Muscovites call it Ikary, and the Italians Cavaiar. [1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 87; OED1 Online 2013ikary] Of Ickary or Cauery, a great quantitie is made vpon the..Volgha out of the fish called Bellougina. [1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth iii. f. 9v; OED1 Online 2013 beluga].

  8. «Beluga malossol» [OED3 Online 2013 malossol: 1959]

  9. Vodka vs brandy In euery great towne of his Realme he hath a Caback or drinking house, where is sold ... mead, beere, etc.[1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xii. f. 44; OED1 Online 2012 caback]. vodka (1802-3). They beginne commonly with a Chark, or small cuppe of Aqua vitæ. [1591 G. Fletcher Of Russe Common Wealth xxviii. f. 112v; OED1 Online 2013 chark].

  10. Vodka vs brandy The liquors in use among the Russians: viz. quas, braga, or small-beer, beer, and Russ brandy. [1780 W. Tooke tr. J. G. Georgi Russia II. 319; OED1 Online 2013 Russ]. The peasantry ... still prefer their national brandy, called vodka. [1833 R. Pinkerton Russia 74; OED1 Online 2013 vodka] voda water + endearing diminutive suffix –ka (Barnhart R.K. (ed.) The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology. Wilson Co., 1988).

  11. Crim [OED3 Online 2013 Crim:c1560] => CRIMEA

  12. slaven [ME sclave, fr. OF or ML; OF esclave, fr. ML sclavus, fr. Sclavus Slav; from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe] (14c) [EncBrWebster; OED1 Online 2013 Slav]

  13. Whole Rivulets of an Oily substance, by them call'd Nefte. [1698 J. Crull Antient & Present State Muscovy I. 48; OED2 Online 2013 nefte]. Nefte =?= oil This Oyle is blacke, and is called Nefte. [c1575 G. Ducket in R. Eden Martyr's Decades (1577) f. 328v; OED2 Online 2013 nefte]. We saw ... above thirty sources of Nefte, which is a kind of Medicinal Oil. [1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 402; OED2 Online 2013 nefte].

  14. История в зеркале Большого Оксфордского словаря (OED) http://vorto.ru/statyi/istoriya-v-zerkale-oksfordskogo-slovarya-ili-opyt-leksikograficheskoy-istoriografii (in Russian)

  15. Questions?

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