Who is the East Slavic Karachun? (Word, Name, Character)
The paper explores the origin and semantics of the word karachun (korochun) having a vast specter of meanings in East Slavic languages (including Russian). It could mean ‘death’ (especially sudden and violent); serious illness’, ‘the end as a negative result, cessation, exhaustion of something’, ‘ev...
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Language: | Russian |
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Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta
2023-07-01
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Series: | Вопросы ономастики |
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Online Access: | http://onomastics.ru/en/content/2023-volume-20-issue-2-7 |